Valk van Spiegel was married. The couple had four children. The family lived in Deventer. Valk van Spiegel was a representative. He worked in the resistance under the pseudonym 'Felix'. He belonged to the National Committee for Help to People in Hiding (LO) in Deventer and also to the Deventer group-Van der Dool. He was involved with helping people in hiding, by illegally supplying food for Westerbork and false papers. He was also a member of the Interior Forces (Region 4/Deventer).
On 25 march 1945, Valk van Spiegel was caught in Deventer, probably through betrayal. With the Canadian troops approaching, he and nine other prisoners were shot dead on 6 April 1945 on the rural estate Oxerhof in Diepenveen.
NIOD, Erelijst Verzet en Koopvaardij, database made by J.W. de Leeuw;
B. Braber, Zelfs als wij zullen verliezen. Joden in verzet en illegaliteit in Nederland 1940-1945 (Amsterdam, 1990) 152-153;
H. Hamburger and J.C. Regtien, Joodse oorlogsmonumenten in de provincie Overijssel, alsmede algemene oorlogsmonumenten waarop joodse namen voorkomen. Profiel (Bedum 2002) 25
This person is mentioned in a CABR document of the Dutch Nationaal Archief. The CABR contains detailed information concerning this person’s arrest, inv. nr CABR 77016 + 76993
Valk van Spiegel was married to a non-Jewish woman. His wife and their four children survived the war.
Addition of a visitor of the website
A memorial in Diepenveen commemorates the Jewish victims of this town. More information on this memorial can be found (in Dutch) on the website of the Nationaal Comité 4 en 5 mei.