Alex Meijler had gone into hiding with his sister and grandmother in a welcoming home in Leiden. He felt restless and did not wish to sit idly by while others risked their lives for him, and he decided to join the resistance.
This was too dangerous for his host family's taste, and he found another place to go into hiding.
He was arrested there on 10 March 1945. Lex tried to flee through the garden…