Boy Ecury

Boy Ecury[1] (23 April 1922 – 6 November 1944) was a member of the Dutch resistance in World War II.

[3] Ecury graduated in 1937 with a diploma in commerce from the Brother of St. Louis School in Oudenbosch,[4] and he did a lot of travelling around the Netherlands.

[4] Some members betrayed their colleagues, and many of them were captured by the Nazis, including Luis, who was imprisoned and tortured in Utrecht.

[4] On 5 November 1944, Ecury, who had been one of many betrayed by Kees Bitter [nl],[4] was arrested in Rotterdam by the Sicherheitsdienst (SD) and taken to the "Oranjehotel" (a former prison turned into concentration camp).

Forty years after his death, Ecury was posthumously honored by the Dutch government and awarded a Resistance Heroes Commemorative Cross.

Statue of Boy Ecury in Oranjestad, Aruba