Abbink, Hendrik, born 01-12-1911, Amsterdam/North Holland, 
Netherlands, Hendrik lived in Duivendrecht at the Burgemeester van Damstraat 5. 
Hendrik was the son of Hendrik Abbink (19-06-1883, Amsterdam) and Maria Catharina, born Kriller (08-01-1888, Amsterdam). Hendrik was married to Gijsberta, born Broertjes (23-10-1915, Amsterdam). The couple had one child, a daughter, Hetty.
Hendrik was a bank clerk at the Hollandsche Bank-Unie NV in Amsterdam and a member of the resistance. In July 1943, Hendrik refused compulsory labor in Germany. Through a friend, Abbink got a job as a contract worker/clerk at the Regional Employment Office (GAB) in Amsterdam so he could remain in his hometown. However, he did participate in forging documents for people who had to go to Germany or those on leave from Germany. 
In Amsterdam during 1943, a Regional Employment Office (GAB) was the Dutch entity responsible for registering forced laborers (Arbeitseinsatz) for Germany, as part of the broader Nazi forced labor program. While the term GAB is used, these were the local “arbeidsbureaus” that also documented workers. Information on individual forced laborers might be found in the archives of these local offices or the National Archives, which holds related Dutch Red Cross records.
In January 1945, Abbink refused to cooperate with the so-called Liese-Aktion, which was intended for the compulsory registration of workers for the benefit of the occupying forces. On January 5th and 6th, the resistance liquidated at least six employees of the Regional Employment Office who had cooperated with this registration. They did so along with sixteen other colleagues.
Death and burial ground of Abbink, Hendrik.
On 10 01-1945, Hendrik was arrested at the GAB office and transferred to the detention center on Weteringschans in Amsterdam. 
Abbink was executed, age 33, on 18-01-1945 in Amsterdam, Rozenoord, along with ten of his colleagues on the Amsteldijk. The war memorial in Duivendrecht (municipality of Ouder-Amstel) was erected in memory of five fellow citizens who were executed by the occupying forces during World War II.The names of the five victims are: Hendrik Abbink, Jan Martin Bakker, (resistance name Jurgens), age 25 
, Rijklof Johannes van der Ploeg, age 20, 
, Johannes Robben, age 49 
, and Pieter Jelle Trap, age 27, 
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Hendrik Abbink is buried at the Field of Honor Bloemendaal in Oosterbeek, Plot 34.
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