In an investigation by Radboud University and the Amsterdam City Archives into the causes of death of Amsterdammer inhabitants between 1854 and 1940, they came across the victims of the German bombing of the Blauwburgwal on 11 May 1940.
One of the injured was Jan Olie. Researcher Fred Geukes Foppen also came across the name of my uncle in his documents. He wrote about him that he was in a resistance organization in Haarlem. Olie described their resistance activities as follows: at the request of Jewish shopkeepers, they "steal" their supplies when it was feared that the German occupier wanted to confiscate those supplies. Oil was captured in one of those actions.
My uncle is registered in the search report as a journalist, but that is an error on the part of the official in question, because Jews were not allowed to practice that profession. According to researcher Fred Geukes Foppen, he was an office worker in a wholesale of draperies