A young Willem Arondeus in his flat in Blaricum.
Photograph | Photograph Number: 21533
- Date
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1915
- Locale
- Blaricum, [Hilversum] The Netherlands
- Variant Locale
- Blarikum
- Photo Designation
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Homosexuals -- Daily Life/Portraits
- Photo Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Toni Boumans
A young Willem Arondeus in his flat in Blaricum.
Later during the war, Arondeus led a gay resistance group in Amsterdam which was responsible for bombing the Amsterdam Population Registry offices. The attack was carried out on 27 March 1943 in an effort to destroy government records of Jews and others sought by the Nazis. As a result of the act, Arondeus was executed in 1943. His rescue efforts have been recognized by by Yad Vashem and the USHMM.
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