About Willem Herman de Rooij

Willem Herman 'Wim' de Rooij came to the Netherlands in 1927. He previously lived in the Dutch-Indies. In Amsterdam he went to the public primary school in the Van de Veldestraat.

Willem Herman de Rooij studied medicine at the Municipal University of Amsterdam and joined the Amsterdam student guild. During the occupation of the Netherlands Wim de Rooij, alias 'Boris' was a member of the resistance. After a while he joined the organisation headed by Gerrit van der Veen and forged identification papers. Wim de Rooij later joined the "Group-Paul", the armed section of Van der Veens organisation. In September 1944 Group-Paul was integrated into the general resistance movement the BS.

During the Hunger Winter of 1944-1945 Group-Paul was involved in several break-ins. On 5 January 1945 a break-in at the Chocolade en Suikerwarenfabriek Klene & Co. located at the Looiersgracht in Amsterdam went wrong. De Rooij was wounded by policebullets and died that night at the Luftwaffelazarett in Amsterdam. His body was found several weeks after the liberation in a burial pit in the dunes near Overveen. Wim de Rooij was reburried at the Field of Honour in Bloemendaal.
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