Hut, Pieter Elibert, born on 14-09-1921, in Ten Boer, 
municipality of Groningen, Netherland, the son of baker Hillebrand Hut (12-03-1888, Zevenhuizen – 30-04-1981) and his wife Martje Hut-van Dijk (30-03-1891, Usquert 13-11-1966). Pieter was unmarried and was in the Dutch resistance known by the alias Piet Brinkman. Hut grew up in Usquert and worked there as a secretary at the town hall. Additionally, he was a notable figure in the local community as the leader of the children’s variety troupe Don Pedro. Pieter was one of the founders of the resistance group Groep Bedum (also known as Groep Oom/Uncle Henk).
During World War II, Hut, who was part of a theater company, did not wish to join the Kulturkammer established by the occupier. As a volunteer at the secretariat of the municipality of Usquert, where he grew up, he became involved in the distribution of ration coupons. Hut clashed with the NSB, the National Socialist Movement 
mayor, especially when he refused to go out for the Winter Aid. The NSB was a Dutch fascist political party, pro Germany and Hitler, was founded 14-12-1931, by Anton Adrian Mussert 
and Cornelis “Kees” van Geelkerken
in Utrecht.
Hut felt compelled to resign. Because he was unemployed, he had to report directly in Groningen for employment in Germany. He wasn’t at all interested in that. A hiding place was arranged in Surhuizum, but he didn’t like sitting still. Within two weeks, he returned and began forming a resistance group, the Bedum Group, which is also known as Uncle Henk’s Group (Henk (H.E.) Broekstra, a civil servant at the Bedum municipal office, was called Uncle Hendrik in the resistance).
To obtain ration cards, the group carried out several raids, including the raid on the distribution office in Langweer on 04-06-1943.
Death and burial ground of Hut, Pieter Elibert.
Hut was shot dead on 05-08-1943, age 22. At the address Fruitstraat 41 in Groningen, where he was in hiding with T.P. Hut at the Van der Heuvel family’s home, a meeting took place around noon with resistance fighter Sikke Hiemstra 
from Surhuizum. ‘Sometime later,’ according to a court report of the trial against the SD 
Sicherheitsdienst/Security service, collaborator, Evert Cornelis Drost 
known as “The Terror of Zeist,” a passionate Dutch traitor (Policeman, born 29-07-1906, Langbroek – executed 28-07-1949, age 42, Groningen), ‘the illegal worker Johannes Ter Horst 
and someone introduced as Kramer, also an illegal, appeared.’ This was strange, because it was known that Johannes Ter Horst had been arrested a few days earlier. When asked about it, he stated that he had escaped again. The truth, however, was that he had declared his willingness to cooperate with the S.D. (According to Hut’s resistance card, B.G. – Ben – Ter Horst was acquitted by the Special Council of Cassation). The aforementioned Kramer was in fact Drost, who, according to witnesses, boasted highly about his illegal work. After a while, he disappeared again but returned with, Robert Friedrich Lehnhoff 
(SS-Hauptscharführer and Kriminalskretär born 11-08-1906, Mehle, Germany – executed 24-07-1950, Groningen), Friedrich Bellmer 
(Hauptsturmführer, born 20-10-1897, Geestemünde, Germany – died 1966, Bremen, Germany, second man at Scholtenhuis in Groningen) 
and other S.D. members. Pieter Elibert Hut was shot – ‘by Bellmer’, says Drost, ‘by Drost’ declare the witnesses – while gentlemen T.P. Hut and S. Hiemstra were arrested.
Hut, Pieter Elibert. is buried at the the Municipal Cemetery in Usquert. Zijlsterweg 15A (or Zijlsterweg 5A), 9988 RH Usquert, Netherlands
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