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Name
  
Jan Campert

Role
  
Journalist

Children
  
Remco Campert



Died
  
January 12, 1943, Bergedorf, Germany

Grandchildren
  
Cleo Campert, Emanuela Campert

4 mei 1999 de 18 doden, gedicht van Jan Campert door Luc Sala


Jan Remco Theodoor Campert (Spijkenisse, August 15, 1902 – January 12, 1943) was a journalist, theater critic and writer who lived in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. During the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II Campert was arrested for aiding the Jews. He was held in the Neuengamme concentration camp, where he died.

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Campert is best known for his poem "De achttien dooden" ("The Eighteen Dead"), describing the execution of 18 resistance workers (15 resistance fighters and 3 communists) by the German occupier. Written in 1941 and based on an account published in Het Parool, the poem was clandestinely published in 1943 as a poetry card ("rijmprent") by what would become publishing house De Bezige Bij to raise money to hide Jewish children.

He was the father of novelist and poet Remco Campert.

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Jan Campert Jan Campertprijzen uitgereikt tijdens het Schrijversfeest 2017

References

Jan Campert Wikipedia


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