Jan Campert

Jan Remco Theodoor Campert was a Dutch journalist, theater critic and writer who lived in Amsterdam. During the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II Campert was arrested for aiding Jews. He was held in the Neuengamme concentration camp, where he died.
Campert is best known for his poem "", describing the execution of 18 resistance workers by the German occupier. Written in 1941 and based on an account published in Het Parool, the poem was clandestinely published in 1943 as a poetry card by what became the De Bezige Bij publishing house to raise money to hide Jewish children.
He was the father of the novelist and poet Remco Campert.
The Jan Campert Prize is named after him.