Date of birth:

October 22nd, 1913 (Rotterdam/Zuid-Holland, the Netherlands)

Date of death:

September 6th, 1944 (Konzentrationslager Mauthausen/Upper-Austria, Austria)

Buried on:

Memorial and Grave Victims Englandspiel

Nationality:

Dutch

Before the war, Barend Klooss worked as an office clerk in his hometown of Rotterdam. In 1936, he left for Saigon to work for Diethelm & Co. in the shipping and insurance industry, and later at the Dutch consulate. In January 1941, he enlisted in the Dutch army in Canada, after which he moved to England. He was then recruited by Special Operations Executive in May 1942.
As a member of Operation Leek, Klooss was parachuted in along with Henk Sebes on April 5, 1942, with the task of carrying out sabotage in Overijssel, including hindering enemy warfare in the event of an invasion. Just three weeks later, on April 29, 1942, he was arrested. Sebes was arrested on May 9. After imprisonment in the Haaren and Assen camps, Klooss was transferred to the Mauthausen concentration and extermination camp, where he was executed on September 6, 1944.

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Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Rank:

Reserve 2e Luitenant

Unit:

N Section, Special Operations Executive (SOE), British Government

Awarded on:

May 2nd, 1953

Awarded for:

Operation Plan Claribel

"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
3433rd Award.

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Mauthausen Concentration Camp

Mauthausen - Oberosterreich