Date of birth:

February 3rd, 1924 (Klundert/Noord-Brabant, the Netherlands)

Date of death:

April 11th, 1945 (Winterswijk/Gelderland, the Netherlands)

Buried on:

Dutch Field of Honour Loenen
Plot: D. Grave: 407.

Nationality:

Dutch

Jacob den Bakker lived in Klundert. He was born on February 3rd, 1924 as son to Roeland den Bakker (May 5th, 1887, Klundert) and Adriana Catharina van Bezooijen (June 14th, 1887, Klundert). Jacob was not married, worked as a farmer and was during the occupation of the Netherlands e member of the resistance. Beceause he did not want to be send to work in Germany, he went into hiding for two years at the small village Huppel near Winterswijk. He stayed with the farmersfamily Vreeman (Huppel 77). By the end of March 1945, the area was liberated and Jacob decided to stay and join the Binnenlandse Strijdkrachten (Interior Forces). On April11th, he joined a group to arrest collaborators when at a certain moment, for no reason yet known, a shot was fired which mortally wounded him.

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