Willem arondeus biography definition

The visual artist and writer Willem Arondéus led the resistance group that carried out an attack on the Amsterdam population registry on March 27, 1943.

The raid was successful, but it ended badly for the participants. Arondéus was the first to be arrested and, along with eleven comrades, was executed in the dunes of Overveen on July 1, 1943.

Arondéus had joined the resistance shortly after the outbreak of the war, initially as an individual.

In his illegal Brandarisbrief, he urged his fellow artists not to sign up for the Dutch Cultural Chamber and criticized those who did.

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In 1942, he joined the artists’ resistance and Gerrit van der Veen’s Personal Identification Card Central. Arondéus forged identity cards and ensured that the forgeries reached their intended recipients.

He continued his Brandarisbrief in the resistance newspaper De Vrije Kunstenaar.

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