Descendants Hemerik-Broekhuizen-Huner-Koper-Barink » Abraham Kret (1914-1945)

Personal data Abraham Kret 

  • He was born on April 14, 1914 in Leiden.
  • He died on February 13, 1945 in Dresden (Duitsland), he was 30 years old.
    Akte is in Leiden ingeschreven als beschikking der Arrondissements-Rechtbank te 's-Gravenhage van 17 december 1948, waarbij de aanvulling is bevolen van de registers van de burgerlijke stand dezer gemeente met een akte, vermeldende dat in denacht van 12 op 13 Februari 1945 te Dresden in Duitsland betrokkene is overleden.
  • A child of Jacobus Kret and Geertruida Owel
  • This information was last updated on March 4, 2014.

Household of Abraham Kret

He is married to Margaretha Lancel.

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Second World War victim


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Ancestors (and descendant) of Abraham Kret

Abraham Kret
1855-1915
Abraham Owel
1861-1910
Jacobus Kret
1893-1949

Abraham Kret
1914-1945



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Historical events

  • The temperature on April 14, 1914 was between 3.4 °C and 12.5 °C and averaged 9.0 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain. There was 10.0 hours of sunshine (72%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1914: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.2 million citizens.
    • April 24 » The Franck–Hertz experiment, a pillar of quantum mechanics, is presented to the German Physical Society.
    • May 29 » The Ocean liner RMSEmpress of Ireland sinks in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence with the loss of 1,012 lives.
    • July 28 » In the culmination of the July Crisis, Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia, igniting World War I.
    • August 15 » The Panama Canal opens to traffic with the transit of the cargo ship SSAncon.
    • September 22 » A German submarine sinks three British cruisers over a seventy-minute period, killing almost 1500 sailors.
    • November 9 » SMSEmden is sunk by HMASSydney in the Battle of Cocos.
  • The temperature on February 13, 1945 was between 6.2 °C and 10.8 °C and averaged 8.9 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain during 1.2 hours. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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 Netherlands , there was from February 23, 1945 to June 24, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy III, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
  • From June 24, 1945 till July 3, 1946 the Netherlands had a cabinet Schermerhorn - Drees with the prime ministers Prof. ir. W. Schermerhorn (VDB) and W. Drees (PvdA).
  • In the year 1945: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 9.2 million citizens.
    • January 18 » World War II: Liberation of Kraków, Poland by the Red Army.
    • February 8 » World War II: The United Kingdom and Canada commence Operation Veritable to occupy the west bank of the Rhine.
    • April 7 » World War II: Visoko is liberated by the 7th, 9th, and 17th Krajina brigades from the Tenth division of Yugoslav Partisan forces.
    • April 8 » World War II: After an air raid accidentally destroys a train carrying about 4,000 Nazi concentration camp internees in Prussian Hanover, the survivors are massacred by Nazis.
    • September 5 » Cold War: Igor Gouzenko, a Soviet Union embassy clerk, defects to Canada, exposing Soviet espionage in North America, signalling the beginning of the Cold War.
    • September 15 » A hurricane strikes southern Florida and the Bahamas, destroying 366 airplanes and 25 blimps at Naval Air Station Richmond.

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