National Committee of Resistance


The National Committee of Resistance was a resistance organization during World War II.

Bud Andrée Wiltens had asked his cousin Mom Wellenstein to address this organization. There were also involved club member Thys Risselada, A. van Velsen and Lambertus Neher, who had been deployed by the Germans as PTT director. In the beginning, A. Chaillet of the Bataafse Petroleum Society, but soon arrested and replaced by Utrecht jurist Marie Anne Tellegen.

The group has never been officially established and thus never dissolved but the activities began in 1943. It had to be a national organization with an office in The Hague. Office was a big word, because people worked at home, among others at Greve in the Parkstraat, at Van Velsen on Bankastraat 111 and in the Zeestraat.

The purpose of the National Committee (NC), as the group was soon mentioned, was to coordinate all kinds of resistance activities of different groups in civil matters. Also gathering information about the Germans was important.

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