In 1943, to prevent the Nazis from checking forged documents against public records, she aided her friends in the bombing of the registration office in Amsterdam.Arondeus, Willem Johan Cornelis. Belinfante, herself, was half Jewish. Along with her friend, gay artist Willem Arondeus, she joined the resistance movement early on, creating forged documents for Dutch Jews.
Willem Arondeus was an artist-turned-author and most importantly a member of the Dutch resistance to Nazi occupation. (Photo credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Marco Entrop)Willem Arondeus (1894 1943). Two more works followed, along with the first positive newspaper reviews.Portrait of Willem Arondeus. This marvellous Salom design is by a Dutch artist I hadn’t heard of before, Willem Arondeus, who might have had a longer career had his life not been cut short by a Nazi firing squad in 1943.Arondeus, Willem Astell, Mary huge wall painting in the city hall of Rotterdam. Your eyes are like black holes burned by torches in a Tyrian tapestry.
Despitethe first gay bar opening its doors during this time, these restrictive age rulings, along with other laws against public indencency, were used to unfairly target gay men.Butthese rulings did not intimidate Arondeus. An openly gay man and a tireless member of the Dutch resistance against the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, he willingly sacrified his life for a mission that ultimately protected hundreds of thousands of Jews' lives.From an early age, Arondeus was no stranger to the concept of defiance.Born in 1894 as the youngest of six siblings in Naarden, Amsterdam, Arondeus began to have constant fights with his parents over his sexuality.Often deemed the birthplace of LGBT rights, Amsterdam decriminalized homosexuality in 1811, but restrictive rules still barred homosexuality in the early 20th century.In 1911, the beliefs of the ruling political parties led to the age of consent for homosexuality to be changed to 21 in the Netherlands - despite the age for heterosexuality remaining at 16. "Homosexuals are not cowards."A battle cry of defiance and a bold assertion of his strength, Arondeus lived his life by these words. First time working with ash for me on an abstract portrait of Willem Arondeus, resistance fighter, gay crusader, writer and artist.In the final days before his execution in July 1943 at the hands of the Nazi party, Willem Arondeus asked his lawyer for one last request: to spread a message after he was gone."Let it be known," he said. His parents, Hendrik Cornelis Arondeus and Catharina Wilhelmina de Vries, designed costumes for the theater.Le Puits de la Paix.
"But when he joined the resistance, he found his own voice - you see a man who is determined, who knows the risks, but doesn't feel like an outsider anymore."Though Arondeus was focused on defending the safety of the Dutch Jews, he and other LGBT citizens also saw the imminent threat of the Nazis to their community.Upon their occupation of the Netherlands at the start of the 1940s, the Germans brought with them Paragraph 175 - a law first introduced by Hitler in Germany in an effort to cleanse the country of homosexual activity. He always felt as an outsider," said Mueller. (Photo credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Toni Boumans)While Arondeus had many artistic talents, he is much more recognized for his courageous acts of rebellion as a member of the Dutch resistance during World War II - which he joined in 1940 and where he truly found his voice as an activist."When you read diary you see an insecure artist, even doubting his own success. "In his diaries… he wrote about being kicked out of apartments because he was gay, there was no protection."Willem Arondeus on the island of Urk. Alongside living in poverty, he also struggled to find housing due to his refusal to hide his sexuality."Willem, as an exception, lived as openly as he could," Klaus Mueller, the European representative for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, said during a virtual event "Pride Month: Defying Nazi Persecution" this past July. During that time he met his partner, Jan Tijssen, who he lived with for seven years.Arondeus quickly learned, though, that persistent discrimination of LGBT citizens made life difficult.
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His sexuality was revealed in a TV program, and the Dutch public finally learned the true extent of his bravery - forever cementing his efforts as a symbol of heroism in the LGBT community for years to come."He was a great hero who was most willing to give his life for the cause," Belinfante said.To learn more about Willem Arondeus, visit the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's website and YouTube page. This went against Arondeus' final message to his lawyer for the public to be informed of LGBT participation in the mission.It was only in 1984 that Arondeus was awarded the Resistance Memorial Cross, and in 1986 that he was posthumously declared a Righteous Among the Nations honor -given to those during the Holocaust who were not Jewish but protected the rights of Jewish citizens in need.And in 1990, he finally got his wish to be recognized not only as a hero, but as a member of the LGBT community. Though he attempted to take full responsibility for the attack and refused to give the names of his team, his notebook was found and many of the contributors were revealed.Some were able to escape and flee the country, but exactly three months later, Arondeus and 12 others - including two other gay men - were brought before a firing squad and executed.Though the bombing of the Amsterdam registry building was widely regarded after the Holocaust as a lifesaving moment in history, education about the heroic moment omitted Arondeus' leadership due to the fact that he was a gay man.So, while his family did receive a medal of honor for his sacrifices in the years following his death, homophobia that persisted throughout the 1950s and 1960s prevented LGBT war heroes like Arondeus from getting the recognition they deserved.
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