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A selection of the photographs and original documents that preserve Gerrit’s story. Click any image to see it larger. Captions identify the source and distinguish contemporary records from later memorials or interpretations.

Portrait

Gerrit Blaauw

Portrait identified as Gerrit Blaauw by the Municipality of Elburg; photographer and date unknown.

Map

North Veluwe, wartime map

Local enlargement of a 1943 German military map, UC Berkeley Library collection.

Document

Postwar resistance history

Page from a published LO resistance history, identifying Gerrit and his RvV connection.

Document

Official confirmation of resistance service

31 October 1946 mayoral reply identifying Gerrit as a very active member of the NBS Doornspijk group.

Portrait

David Blair

Portrait identified in local TA837 historical material; original photographer unknown.

Document

Pilot’s first-person account

A supplied copy of the evasion narrative, preserved with its original markings.

Document

RAF commission notice

London Gazette, 13 March 1945: David Blair and the two service numbers.

Memorial

TA837 memorial at Winterdijk

Modern memorial commemorating the aircraft landing; source Oldebroek in Oorlogstijd.

Map

The landing site

Local source’s annotated crash-location diagram; a modern interpretation.

Photograph

Spitfires of No. 349 Squadron

Wartime RAF photograph of squadron aircraft at Friston, Sussex; IWM provenance in the research dossier.

Photograph

Family and helpers

Postwar family photograph associated with a local account of the pilot’s escape.

Photograph

Rauter’s car after the attack

Photograph reproduced by Doetinchem Herdenkt, credited to Beeldbank WO2-NIOD.

Memorial

Woeste Hoeve memorial

Later memorial at Woeste Hoeve, not an image of the execution.

Memorial

Woeste Hoeve inscription

Memorial inscription remembering those killed on 8 March 1945.

Document

Postwar identification record

Identification card preserved in Haags Gemeentearchief, 0432-01, inventory 4054.

Newspaper

News reaches the family

Elburger Courant, 15 May 1945, reporting that Gerrit’s body had been found.

Newspaper

Family death notice

Family notice published in the Elburger Courant, 15 May 1945.

Document

Record of arrest and burial

1954 OGS questionnaire recording arrest at Elburg, De Kruisberg detention and execution.

Document

Grave inspection

1955 grave inspection record for Oosterwolde.

The research PDF contains additional records and the full documentary citations. Some images are reproduced from third-party archives for historical context; original ownership and reuse permissions may vary.