Jan Bottema

1908–1944 (age 36)

Biography

Jan Bottema joined the resistance as an act of conscience, working discreetly to aid those targeted by oppression and to oppose tyranny where he could.

He was killed in 1944, and his name endures at the Dutch Honorary Cemetery Bloemendaal as a tribute to the courage he brought to a dark time.

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