Max Jacques Roeper

Max Jacques Roeper studied medicine in Amsterdam, where he sat for his medical finals on 17 March 1926. He specialized to become a surgeon. For many years, he worked as an assistant at the surgeon's clinic of the General Provincial, Municipal and University Hospital of Groningen, where he lived at 110 Heereweg. In 1935, he left for Heerenveen, where he ran an extensive practice in gynaecological s…

echtgenote: Louise Piekema; geboren 30-9-1912 in Vlissingen, overleden 4-7-2000 in Den Haag.
Op 18-5-1947 in Groningen hertrouwd met Mr. N.J. Polak
kinderen:
Jacques Roeper, geboren 11-6-1936 in Heerenveen, overleden 25-10-1997 in Amsterdam
Fredrik Roeper, geboren 18-5-1939 in Heerenveen, overleden 10-11-2009 in Amsterdam

His participation in this resistance is a logical consequence of his background. Everyone knows the man as a doctor and healer. I doubt whether people also know him as a soldier. In the photo below we see him as a soldier in 1934.

The description reads:
Portrait of surgeon J. Roeper in military captain's uniform, lived at Oude Koemarkt 6

And so his participation in the doctors' resistance can easi…