Jewish Dutch resistance fighter during World War II. He was executed in the dunes near Overveen.
Translation from www.eerebegraafplaatsbloemendaal.eu:
Leo Frijda as mid-1941, after his high school diploma have obtained, as Jewish youth do not go to college (medicines) at a university. He was therefore trainee medical analyst in the CIZ laboratory in Amsterdam. In the autumn of 1941 he studied, along with former school mate Theo Hondius, to escape the possibility of a sailboat through the North Sea. From November 1942 until April 1943 he published under the pseudonym Edgar Fossan and EC Fossan poems and prose in the literary magazine Lichting illegal. In 1942 he joined the resistance group CS-6. The Hague resistance fighter dr. GW Kastein he and his peers were encouraged alongside sabotage activities also carry out assassinations. On February 5, 1943 Frijda in The Hague was closely involved in the liquidation (Jan Verleun) General HA Seyffardt, which had been made available as a (formal) commander of the eastern front formed Dutch Volunteer Legion. The action resulted in 600 students were arrested and taken to Vught. In March Frijda worked on railway sabotage in Amsterdam Rietlanden. In June, he liquidated mechanic B. Hoff and - together with H. Katan - D. Blom, both Sipo-informants, and he tried to found a fire bomb in a cinema Hague. After being arrested about August 20, 1943, he was sentenced to death and executed on October 1, 1943.
Translation from www.eerebegraafplaatsbloemendaal.eu:
Leo Frijda as mid-1941, after his high school diploma have obtained, as Jewish youth do not go to college (medicines) at a university. He was therefore trainee medical analyst in the CIZ laboratory in Amsterdam. In the autumn of 1941 he studied, along with former school mate Theo Hondius, to escape the possibility of a sailboat through the North Sea. From November 1942 until April 1943 he published under the pseudonym Edgar Fossan and EC Fossan poems and prose in the literary magazine Lichting illegal. In 1942 he joined the resistance group CS-6. The Hague resistance fighter dr. GW Kastein he and his peers were encouraged alongside sabotage activities also carry out assassinations. On February 5, 1943 Frijda in The Hague was closely involved in the liquidation (Jan Verleun) General HA Seyffardt, which had been made available as a (formal) commander of the eastern front formed Dutch Volunteer Legion. The action resulted in 600 students were arrested and taken to Vught. In March Frijda worked on railway sabotage in Amsterdam Rietlanden. In June, he liquidated mechanic B. Hoff and - together with H. Katan - D. Blom, both Sipo-informants, and he tried to found a fire bomb in a cinema Hague. After being arrested about August 20, 1943, he was sentenced to death and executed on October 1, 1943.
Jewish Dutch resistance fighter during World War II. He was executed in the dunes near Overveen.
Translation from www.eerebegraafplaatsbloemendaal.eu:
Leo Frijda as mid-1941, after his high school diploma have obtained, as Jewish youth do not go to college (medicines) at a university. He was therefore trainee medical analyst in the CIZ laboratory in Amsterdam. In the autumn of 1941 he studied, along with former school mate Theo Hondius, to escape the possibility of a sailboat through the North Sea. From November 1942 until April 1943 he published under the pseudonym Edgar Fossan and EC Fossan poems and prose in the literary magazine Lichting illegal. In 1942 he joined the resistance group CS-6. The Hague resistance fighter dr. GW Kastein he and his peers were encouraged alongside sabotage activities also carry out assassinations. On February 5, 1943 Frijda in The Hague was closely involved in the liquidation (Jan Verleun) General HA Seyffardt, which had been made available as a (formal) commander of the eastern front formed Dutch Volunteer Legion. The action resulted in 600 students were arrested and taken to Vught. In March Frijda worked on railway sabotage in Amsterdam Rietlanden. In June, he liquidated mechanic B. Hoff and - together with H. Katan - D. Blom, both Sipo-informants, and he tried to found a fire bomb in a cinema Hague. After being arrested about August 20, 1943, he was sentenced to death and executed on October 1, 1943.
Translation from www.eerebegraafplaatsbloemendaal.eu:
Leo Frijda as mid-1941, after his high school diploma have obtained, as Jewish youth do not go to college (medicines) at a university. He was therefore trainee medical analyst in the CIZ laboratory in Amsterdam. In the autumn of 1941 he studied, along with former school mate Theo Hondius, to escape the possibility of a sailboat through the North Sea. From November 1942 until April 1943 he published under the pseudonym Edgar Fossan and EC Fossan poems and prose in the literary magazine Lichting illegal. In 1942 he joined the resistance group CS-6. The Hague resistance fighter dr. GW Kastein he and his peers were encouraged alongside sabotage activities also carry out assassinations. On February 5, 1943 Frijda in The Hague was closely involved in the liquidation (Jan Verleun) General HA Seyffardt, which had been made available as a (formal) commander of the eastern front formed Dutch Volunteer Legion. The action resulted in 600 students were arrested and taken to Vught. In March Frijda worked on railway sabotage in Amsterdam Rietlanden. In June, he liquidated mechanic B. Hoff and - together with H. Katan - D. Blom, both Sipo-informants, and he tried to found a fire bomb in a cinema Hague. After being arrested about August 20, 1943, he was sentenced to death and executed on October 1, 1943.
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