Jacobus Hermanus Berkhout <i>(Jacob)</i>
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Jacobus Hermanus Berkhout is listed in the Resistance Memorial on the
left wall, row 22 #05

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Jacobus Hermanus Berkhout (Jacob)


 12-08-1904 Culemborg      31-08-1945 Malchow (41)
- Aid to People in Hiding L.O. - Knokploegen (K.P.) - Heythuysen - Forced Labor -



Het Grote Gebod – L.O.

    Jacob Berkhout, an electrical engineer, had taken in a Jewish Ms. Prijs and her two children at his home. Someone who knew about it betrayed this in order to get an arrested friend released. Berkhout and his three guests were arrested on June 10, 1944. The mother died in a German concentration camp, her two children survived the war. Via Vught, Berkhout came to Neuengamme. In February 1945 he was put on a ship with other prisoners in Danzig. He was never heard from again after that. Presumably the ship was sunk somewhere off the coast in the Baltic Sea. [1]
    According to a note in his file in the archives of the OGS, he died in the hospital of Malchow on August 31, 1945. [2]
    There was the factory Munitions- und Sprengstoffwerk Malchow, where the most dangerous work was done by forced laborers.
     [3]
    He is listed in the “Erelijst 1940-1945” (Honor Roll of the Dutch Parliament). [4]

    Footnotes

    1. Dr. F. Cammaert, Het Verborgen Front – Geschiedenis van de georganiseerde illegaliteit in de provincie Limburg tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Doctorale scriptie 1994, Groningen
      5. Hulpverlening aan joden, p. 435
    2. Archief Oorlogsgravenstichting (@ Nationaal archief), Dossier Jacob H. Berkhout #5
    3. Munitionswerk Malchow
    4. Erelijst 1940-1945
    5. Oorlogsgravenstichting.nl