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Birt announcement in: De Rijnbode, 28/09/1904; p. 3/4

Thomas did his military service at the Island of texel during his twenties. In 1939 he was called back for military duty during the mobilization for exersizes at Breezand. After the Dutch surrender to the German army, he was a prisoner of war for about 3 months in Breezand. In 1942 he was commanded to start work in Germany. He thought that he was not required to go to Germany because he was the sole caretaker of his mother. He still had to go to germany, but reused to work for the Germans. This is probably the reason (not sure) why he ended up in a concentration camp. He spent 2 years in the concentration camp, but was shot to death on May 12, 1944, after the Germans had "released" the prisoners.

A priest (unknown) who stayed behind in the concentration camp to take care of the sick and wounded, visited Thomas' brother Gerard after the war and told him the following story. The Russian army was approaching the concentration camp. Then the Germans opened the gates of the camp and told all prisoners that they were free to leave. The "healthy" prisoners had to walk several miles to the nearest railway station, but when they reached a nearby hill, the Germans shot them. This happened on May 12, 1944 at 2:30pm. This unknown priest collected as many names as possible and visited the families of the people that were known to him after the war to inform them what had happened. Most of the prisoners were famished and weighed less than 50 kilograms. All of them were burried in an unknown mass grave somewhere in the current Check republic.

The official German cause of death was "Gefallen durch feindl. Bombenterror" (fallen due to enemy bomb attack) on february 24, 1945.

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    1. Newspaper, Leidsch Dagblad, October 5 1904; pg. 6

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    Birthday September 21, 1904

    • The temperature on September 21, 1904 was between 3.8 °C and 15.8 °C and averaged 9.4 °C. There was 9.1 hours of sunshine (74%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
    • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • In The Netherlands , there was from August 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1904: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 5.4 million citizens.
      • April 5 » The first international rugby league match is played between England and an Other Nationalities team (Welsh and Scottish players) in Central Park, Wigan, England.
      • May 5 » Pitching against the Philadelphia Athletics at the Huntington Avenue Grounds, Cy Young of the Boston Americans throws the first perfect game in the modern era of baseball.
      • June 16 » Irish author James Joyce begins a relationship with Nora Barnacle and subsequently uses the date to set the actions for his novel Ulysses; this date is now traditionally called "Bloomsday".
      • October 20 » Chile and Bolivia sign the Treaty of Peace and Friendship, delimiting the border between the two countries.
      • December 6 » Theodore Roosevelt articulated his "Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine, stating that the U.S. would intervene in the Western Hemisphere should Latin American governments prove incapable or unstable.
      • December 7 » Comparative fuel trials begin between warships HMSSpiteful and HMSPeterel: Spiteful was the first warship powered solely by fuel oil, and the trials led to the obsolescence of coal in ships of the Royal Navy.

    Day of death May 12, 1944

    • The temperature on May 12, 1944 was between 6.1 °C and 24.5 °C and averaged 16.3 °C. There was 13.2 hours of sunshine (85%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
    • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1944: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 9.1 million citizens.
      • February 17 » World War II: Operation Hailstone begins: U.S. naval air, surface, and submarine attack against Truk Lagoon, Japan's main base in the central Pacific, in support of the Eniwetok invasion.
      • April 17 » Forces of the Communist-controlled Greek People's Liberation Army attack the smaller National and Social Liberation resistance group, which surrenders. Its leader Dimitrios Psarros is murdered.
      • April 22 » The 1st Air Commando Group using Sikorsky R-4 helicopters stage the first use of helicopters in combat with combat search and rescue operations in the China Burma India Theater.
      • June 17 » Iceland declares independence from Denmark and becomes a republic.
      • July 21 » World War II: Battle of Guam: American troops land on Guam, starting a battle that will end on August 10.
      • August 2 » ASNOM: Birth of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia, celebrated as Day of the Republic in North Macedonia.
    

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