Resting place Hadsund Residence Aars | Occupation Merchant | |
Full Name Michael Westergaard Jensen Born 25 October 1916 ( 1916-10-25 ) Nordregrave 9, Randers Cause of death Execution by firing squad Known for Executed as member of the Danish resistance movement Website "Modstandsdatabasen" [Resistance Database]. Michael Westergaard Jensen (in Danish). Copenhagen: Nationalmuseet. Retrieved 2014-12-14. Died 23 June 1944, Ryvangen Memorial Park, Hellerup, Denmark | ||
Michael Westergård Jensen (25 October 1916 – 23 June 1944) was a merchant and member of the Danish resistance executed by the German occupying power.
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Biography
Jensen was born in Randers on 25 October 1916 as fourth child to porter on the Hadsund railway Christen Mikael Jensen and wife Ane Johanne née Jensen and baptized Michael Westergaard Jensen in Saint Peter's Church, Randers on the second Sunday in Advent.
In 1931 Jensen was confirmed in Hadsund on the eighteenth Sunday after Trinity while residing in southern Hadsund.
In March 1944 the Gestapo made an "incredible number of arrests" including ten arrests in the region of Års, among these Jensen.
On 23 June 1944 Jensen and seven other members of the resistance were executed in Ryvangen.
After his death
The January 1945 issue of the resistance newspaper Frit Danmark (Free Denmark) reported on the execution of the eight resistance members including Jensen.
After the liberation Jensen's remains and those of at least six of the others executed with him were found in Ryvangen and transferred to the Department of Forensic Medicine of the university of Copenhagen.
On 29 June 1945 Jensen was buried in Hadsund.
A memorial stone for Jensen and 90 other resistance members also exhumed in Ryvangen and buried in their respective home towns was laid down in Ryvangen Memorial Park.