Bernardus IJzerdraat

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Bernardus IJzerdraat (1891–1941) was a Dutch resistance fighter in the Second World War.

A tapestry restaurer from Rotterdam, he became involved as early as 1936 in the Eenheid door Democratie movement which opposed Fascism and Communism. Immediately after the bombing of Rotterdam during the German invasion in 1940, he set up the first Dutch resistance group, De Geuzen, and published the Geuzenbericht, a resistance pamphlet, the very next day.^[1]

He was arrested together with other members of his group when the Germans discovered a list of names and addresses at his home. After a show trial, he was shot at Scheveningen on 13 March 1941 together with 17 others, including three Communists involved in the February Strike.

He was posthumously awarded the Resistance Cross which his widow received in 1955.

External links

Bernardus IJzerdraat from the Dutch National Archives. Retrieved 13 April 2008.

References

↑ Resistance in Western Europe, p. 145, ed. Bob Moore, Oxford : Berg, 2000, ISBN 1-85973-279-8.

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Name	IJzerdraat, Bernardus
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Short description	Dutch resistance fighter
Date of birth	1891
Place of birth
Date of death	1941
Place of death

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