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From the CABR dossier regarding the arrest of Willem Salomon Leon Beek on 18 April 1943 in Apeldoorn.
The gist of the events of April 18, 1943: Oosterdijk was a police officer, Pelk was a police doorman, but in fact they were the core of the Jewish squad that went wild in Apeldoorn. The reports do not mention anything about other family members, nor about a possible hiding place of that family or of Willem Salomon Leon Beek.
Willem Salomon Leon Beek.
“Pelk brought to the office the Jew Willem Beek, born in Den Helder 16-1-1908, wandering, who was arrested by him on the Hoofdstraat. He is in possession of a false Identity Card. Confined to Cell VI.”
Huibertus Oosterdijk:
I remember that a Jew Willem van Beek was at the police station. This man was arrested by Pelk on a Sunday, I think in the afternoon. Pelk himself told me that he had stopped him on the Hoofdstraat here. I think Pelk said that he was in the company of his wife [i.e. Mrs. Pelk, as Pelk himself later pointed out that this was said by Oosterdijk]. He had seen him walking on the street and saw that he was a Jew. It is quite possible that this person was not mentioned on the daily report until the evening. Pelk went to Café Kip a lot on Sunday afternoons and must have put Van Beek in one room or another at the police station until he came back in the evening and finished him off. It is also possible that he failed to report it on the daily report and corrected this omission in the evening.
Pelk:
Denies that he would have arrested Beek himself. He is said to have been handed over Doppenberg's detainee, who he had to take to the police station. Pelk says that if the daily report says that this happened at 8:30 PM, that this was not possible at all: the curfew started at 8:00 PM. So his wife couldn't have been present after all?"How or in the relevant mutation it is included that Beek was arrested by me while wandering on the Hoofdstraat is a mystery to me."
Wife of Pelk:
Acknowledges that she was walking with her husband in the Hoofdstraat, that Doppenberg would have called him and was holding someone. Pelk allegedly refused to take this person to the police station. “I then made a whole scene because I didn't want my husband to be approached by NSB members. I didn't want any of that.”
"From the CABR dossier" was posted by the editors of the Jewish Monument on 6 November 2023.