Ernst de Jonge | |
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Born | Ernst Willem de Jonge 22 May 1914 Sinabang, Dutch East Indies |
Died | 3 September 1944 Rawicz (prison), Poland | (aged 30)
Occupation(s) | Olympic rower, lawyer |
Military career | |
Allegiance | Netherlands |
Service | Centrale Inlichtingendienst Dutch resistance |
Years of service | 1940–1944 |
Awards | Bronze Lion Resistance Memorial Cross |
Ernst Willem de Jonge (22 May 1914 – 3 September 1944) was a lawyer and Olympic rower who volunteered to serve in the Dutch resistance during the Second World War. He was captured in May 1942, interrogated and moved through several concentration camps. He died in a prison in occupied by Germans Poland in September 1944.