Date of birth:

October 27th, 1901 (Haarlem/North Holland, The Netherlands)

Date of death:

November 27th, 1944 ( Hamburg-Fuhlsbüttel, Neuengamme, Germany)

Buried on:

Dutch Honorary Cemetery Bloemendaal

Nationality:

Dutch

Jos Mathot was the owner of a printing company and lived with his wife and five children in Haarlem.
In July 1942, Mathot produced and distributed illegal printed matter to keep the sympathy for the Royal House alive. These were posters, pamphlets and so-called Four-Leaf Clovers: sheets of paper on which, when held up to the light, the four female members of the Royal Family became visible. As a result, Mathot and three others who helped him were arrested on 20 July 1942. After twelve days in prison, they were released.
In 1943 and 1944, Mathot produced and distributed illegal printed matter, such as the magazine De Patriot. This was published by the Haarlem resistance group centred around Van der Hulst. Mathot also provided modest financial support to the underground movement.
On 29 July 1944, three weeks after the arrest of Van der Hulst, the Sicherheitspolizei (Sipo) raided and searched Mathot's home. Because he had been warned of Van der Hulst's arrest, he had already removed all illegal printed matter. However, the Sipo found a hidden radio and he was arrested.
In early September, he was transferred via camp Amersfoort to Neuengamme concentration camp near Hamburg. Here he had to perform heavy and dirty labour, such as digging wide tank ditches.
Like many others, Mathot did not survive. On 27 November 1944 - his son Cor's thirteenth birthday - he died of exhaustion in Fuhlsbüttel, an outer camp of Neuengamme in Hamburg. His body was buried in the nearby Zentralfriedhof Ohlsdorf.
Mathot's body was identified in Germany in 1951. More than seven years after his death, he was reburied at the cemetery of honour on 17 March 1952.

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