Date of birth:

March 9th, 1913 (Haarlem/Noord-Holland, the Netherlands)

Date of death:

April 8th, 1943 (Leusderheide-Leusden/Utrecht, the Netherlands)

Buried on:

Dutch Honorary Cemetery Bloemendaal
Plot: 1. 

Nationality:

Dutch

Lived in Haarlem. Married. Flower merchant/casual labourer/merchant in various goods. Not religious. In April 1941, he was put to work in Hanover, but quickly returned home due to a lack of sufficient work. In September 1941, he left for Brest (France). Near Perignan, Schrander met two men who had run out of money and had been planning to cross over to England. They asked him to take a letter to Haarlem for a certain Captain Voorhoeve, who also lived in Haarlem. Schrander did indeed find this person. Voorhoeve asked him to deliver a matchbox containing notes and other items recorded on microfilm to Bern, Switzerland. Voorhoeve gave him contact addresses and instructions for crossing the French-Swiss border. It all went wrong because he was caught with this material in his pocket in his hometown on 20 April 1942. Via the Scheveningen prison (Oranjehotel) and Camp Amersfoort, he ended up in Vught. He was later sentenced to death and shot at the age of thirty on the Leusderheide.

In the 1992 film De Bunker about resistance fighter Gerrit Kleinveld, Geert Lageveen played the role of Louis Schrander as a fellow prisoner in the Bunker of Camp Amersfoort.

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• Photo 1: Patrick Kort
• Photo 2: Oorlogsgravenstichting
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