biography
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Randwijk, Hendrik Mattheus van
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pronunciation:
[van randwiyk]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1909–66)
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| biography:
| Dutch writer, publisher, and journalist, born in Gorinchem, SWC Netherlands. Before the war, until 1942, he was head teacher of a school for poor children in Amsterdam, during which time he wrote several novels and poems. He helped to produce Vrij Nederland during the occupation and became editor (1945–50), and co-wrote Manifest 1944 which was very influential in the development of the underground left. A member of press and radio councils, he was arrested several times, but each time released. His poem Celdroom, was published by the underground press in 1943. In Amsterdam a memorial to his memory was unveiled in 1970 as a tribute to his work for the resistance. |
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