Haas, de, Joannes Henricus Marie

Date of birth:: February 7th, 1918 ('s-Gravenhage, The Netherlands)
Date of death:: September 6th, 1944 (KZ Mauthausen, Austria)
Buried on:: Memorial and Grave Victims Englandspiel
Nationality:: Dutch

Biography

Lived in The Hague. Member of the resistance and England sailor. After arriving in England, he became a secret agent with the Special Operations Executive/Plan Holland Bureau Bijzondere Opdrachten (Special Operations Executive/Plan Holland Bureau for Special Assignments). On 9 April 1942, he was dropped over occupied Dutch territory and arrested by the SD on 2 August 1942. Via the Oranjehotel and Haaren, he eventually ended up in KZ Mauthausen, where he was executed. He was posthumously awarded the Bronze Cross by Royal Decree 33 dated 2 May 1953. De Haas was cremated in the Mauthausen concentration camp.

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Bronzen Kruis (BK)

Period:: Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:: Vaandrig van de Korps Motordienst
Awarded on:: May 2nd, 1953

"In time of war, during the years 1940-1945, escaped at risk of death from the occupied Netherlands and came directly to ENGLAND with the aim of dedicating himself to the service of Dutch warfare."

Royal decree no. 33

Bronzen Kruis (BK)

Period:: Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:: Vaandrig van de Korps Motordienst
Unit:: N Section, Special Operations Executive (SOE), British Government
Awarded on:: May 2nd, 1953

"He has distinguished himself as a member of a secret intelligence agency that has dispatched him in the years between 1940 and 1945 to enemy held territory where he had to perform life threatening actions under extremely trying circumstances that ultimately led to his death by enemy counter-action."

Royal decree no. 33 (posthumously awarded) - 2nd award

Sources

Photo 1: Petra Jansen
- http://www.onderscheidingen.nl/
- Lijst Bronzen Kruis-dragers.
- Gemeente 's-Gravenhage.
- Archief Jack Kooistra.
- Oorlogsgravenstichting.