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Information Panel Resistance Fighter Theodorus Dobbe

INFORMATION PANEL RESISTANCE FIGHTER
For:
Theodorus Dobbe

Theodorus Dobbe had been illegally active around Amsterdam since the summer of 1940 with sabotage, assistance to Jewish people in hiding and the distribution of the illegal magazine Vrij Nederland. He organized various groups that carried out attacks and robberies in the Netherlands, including at the distribution office in Joure (1942). From the beginning of 1944 he set up the fight teams in Nijmegen in the south of the Netherlands, including the KP-Nijmegen. He committed robberies and attacks in various places. He was arrested in Arnhem on September 5, 1944, when he tried to liquidate a collaborator. After a hard interrogation, he tried to escape just before he was executed, but the guards of the Sicherheitsdienst shot him.

The information panels in the Resistance Fighters District in Gouda are memories of important Resistance Fighters who helped many Dutch people during World War II.
To these Resistance Fighters, 16 streets are named to in Gouda.
On 10 april 2014, they finally got a face. Memory boards with photographs and information about these Resistance Fighters were revealed.
These are the streets:

Walraven van Halllaan
Van Roijenstraat
Rutgersstraat
Johannes Poststraat
Helena Rietbergstraat
Dobbestraat
Dercksenstraat
Brandsmastraat
Boelhouwerstraat
Bleysstraat
Willem Idenburgpad
Nieuwenhuisenpad
De Rijkestraat
Teldersstraat
Wiarda Beckmanhof
De Kortestraat.

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Source

  • Text: TracesOfWar
  • Photos: Arie van Wijngaarden