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Heemst, van, Willem Vis

Date of birth:
February 21st, 1917 (Sommelsdijk, Netherlands)
Date of death:
January 7th, 1945 (Rotterdam, Netherlands)
Buried on:
Dutch War Graves General Cemetery Sommelsdijk
Nationality:
Dutch (1815-present, Kingdom)

Biography

Executed on January 7th 1945 in Rotterdam. Prisoner in January 1945 in Rotterdam and executred along with nine other men in reprisal because a German soldier was shot dead during a roberry on a villa on the Bergweg Zuid in Bergschenhoek. Although these men had nothing to do with this robbery they had been executed one day after the robbery.

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