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Personal data Willem Ruys 

  • He was born on August 25, 1894 in Rotterdam.
  • He died on August 15, 1942 in Goirle (Fusillade in de Goirlese bossen ), he was 47 years old.
    Zaterdag 15 augustus 1942: in de vroege ochtend verstoorden geweerschoten de stilte in de bossen van de Gorp en Rovert.
    Maandag 17 augustus 1942: in de landelijke ochtendbladen plaatste de Höhere SS und Polizeiführer Nord West deze bekendmaking:
    "aangezien ondanks de uiterst dringende uitnoodiging van den Wehrmachtsbefehlhaber - General der Flieger Christiansen - de daders van den springstofaanslag in Rotterdam te laf zijn geweest om zich aan te melden, zijn de volgende gijzelaars aangepakt en hedenmorgen doodgeschoten:
    1) Ruis, Willem, directeur-generaal, Rotterdam
    2) Graaf E.O.G. van Limburg Stirum, Arnhem
    3) Mr. Baelde, Robert, Rotterdam
    4) Bennekers, Cristoffel, vroeger hoofdinspecteur van politie, Rotterdam
    5) Baron Alexander Schimmelpennink van der Oye, Noordgouwe, Zeeland."
  • A child of Oorlogsslachtoffers
  • This information was last updated on February 20, 2010.

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1894-1942


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Birthday August 25, 1894

  • The temperature on August 25, 1894 was about 13.8 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 88%. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from May 9, 1894 to July 27, 1897 the cabinet Roëll, with Jonkheer mr. J. Roëll (oud-liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1894: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
    • January 9 » New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard in Lexington, Massachusetts.
    • June 23 » The International Olympic Committee is founded at the Sorbonne in Paris, at the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin.
    • July 25 » The First Sino-Japanese War begins when the Japanese fire upon a Chinese warship.
    • August 25 » Kitasato Shibasaburō discovers the infectious agent of the bubonic plague and publishes his findings in The Lancet.
    • September 1 » Over 400 people die in the Great Hinckley Fire, a forest fire in Hinckley, Minnesota.
    • November 21 » Port Arthur, China, falls to the Japanese, a decisive victory of the First Sino-Japanese War; Japanese troops are accused of massacring the remaining inhabitants.

Day of death August 15, 1942

  • The temperature on August 15, 1942 was between 10.3 °C and 22.2 °C and averaged 17.2 °C. There was 8.6 hours of sunshine (58%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. 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 1942: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 9.0 million citizens.
    • March 20 » World War II: General Douglas MacArthur, at Terowie, South Australia, makes his famous speech regarding the fall of the Philippines, in which he says: "I came out of Bataan and I shall return".
    • April 18 » Pierre Laval becomes Prime Minister of Vichy France.
    • May 19 » World War II: In the aftermath of the Battle of the Coral Sea, Task Force 16 heads to Pearl Harbor.
    • August 6 » Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands becomes the first reigning queen to address a joint session of the United States Congress.
    • August 8 » Quit India Movement is launched in India against the British rule in response to Mohandas Gandhi's call for swaraj or complete independence.
    • November 3 » World War II: The Koli Point action begins during the Guadalcanal Campaign and ends on November 12.


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