Willem Arondeus
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Willem Johan Cornelis Arondéus was a Dutch artist and author who joined the Dutch anti-Nazi resistance movement during World War II. He participated in the bombing of the Amsterdam public records office to hinder the Nazi German effort to identify Dutch Jews and others wanted by the Gestapo. Arondéus was caught and executed soon after his arrest. Yad Vashem recognized Arondéus as Righteous Among the Nations.
Willem Arondeus
Arondéus on holiday on the island of Urk, 1921.
Salome, 1916
Pencil drawing
Dutch resistance
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The Dutch resistance to the German occupation of the Netherlands during World War II can be mainly characterized as non-violent, partly because, according to “Was God on Vacation?”, written by Jack van der Geest who was in the Dutch resistance during WWII, a 1938 Dutch law required all guns to be registered. When the Nazis entered, they found the registration list and went house-to-house knowing exactly what guns to demand. As a result, the Dutch resistance had no guns.
Members of the Veghel Resistance with troops of the United States 101st Airborne Division in Veghel in front of the Lambertus church during Operation Market Garden, September 1944. The resistance fighters are Bert van Roosmalen and Janus van de Meerakker from the village Eerde.
Plaque honouring the Dutch resistance members executed by the Germans at Sachsenhausen concentration camp