The fact that Das was not caught himself always remained a mystery to him. In the autumn of 1944, when everyone thinks that the war will soon be over, the Germans raid the building at Brigittenstraat 20. Henk runs to the cellar. While Maarten stands in front of the building in question with Henk Das’ daughter, she explains: “My father saw a lot of old tea chests from the previous owner of the building and hid behind them, the German who searched the cellar repeatedly struck a match to get a better look at what was in the cellar, but he didn’t see him. “He didn’t want to see me, because the war was already coming to an end, my father always thought.”
Van Rossem talks to the daughter of resistance fighter Henk Das: ‘The war haunted him all his life’
