Biography Dirk Deutekom

Dirk Deutekom was born on 1 December 1895 in Amsterdam. He trained as a carpenter and later worked as a letterpress printer. Deutekom lived in Amsterdam with his wife and daughter. On 10 May 1940, the German Wehrmacht invaded the Netherlands. Dirk Deutekom joined a small resistance group, In June 1944 he was transferred to the Neuengamme concentration camp, where he had to work as prisoner nurse at the sickbay. In November 1944 Deutekom was assigned to look after the 20 children on whom Kurt Heißmeyer was conducting his medical experiments. He was murdered on Bullenhuser Damm on 20 April 1945.