Cato Bontjes van Beek

<BODY> <H1>Cato Bontjes van Beek</H1> <P><SPAN STYLE="font-family:Arial; font-size:12pt"><STRONG> <A HREF="fku62cca.htm" TARGET="_top">Short biography of the Fischerhude resistance fighter Cato Bontjes van Beek</A> </STRONG>She was borne in Fischerhude on November 14, 1920 as first child of the artists Olga and Jan Bontjes van Beek. After graduating, she moved to Berlin and worked there at her father's pottery. Because of deep aversion to the inhumanity of the Nazi, she engaged herself in humanitarian help for French war prisoners, and she wrote handbills against the Nazi regime and distributed them. Later she also was in contact with the resistance movement Rote Kapelle, and therefore she was executed on August 5, 1943 in Berlin. The German Lutheran Church raised Cato Bontjes van Beek to a Lutheran Martyr, according to Confessio Augustana, chapter 21.</SPAN></P> </BODY>