Hartogs, Rudolf, born 03-10-1918, in Amsterdam 
and was unmarried and was a textile technician and an accountant in Amsterdam, living Keizersgracht 65. From his Jewish family, his aunt Sophia Margaretha Hartogs died on 17-01-1944 in Leiden, his aunt Heintje Hartogs on 02-07-1943 in Sobibor concentration camp, 
her husband Abraham Meijer on 02-11-1942 also in Auschwitz concentration camp, 
and his aunt Wilhelmina Hartogs died together with her husband Dane Simons on 31-08-1943 also in Auschwitz.
At the request of a member of the Order Service (OD), 
he hid weapons and explosives in the fall of 1941. During World War II (WWII), the Ordedienst (English: Order Service), abbreviated O.D. or OD, was one of three 1 important clandestine resistance organisations in The Netherlands. It was founded in 1940 with the intent to act as an interim law-enforcement service in case of a sudden retreat of the German occupant. During the course of the war however, the OD gradulally became an intelligence service that passed its information to the Dutch Government in exile in London (UK).
The Binnenlandse Strijdkrachten (officially: Nederlandse Binnenlandse Strijdkrachten/Dutch Domestic Forces ) was an officially established coalition of the previously little-cooperating actual resistance groups on 05-09-1944. The Binnenlandse Strijdkrachten thus emerged from the three main resistance groups: the Ordedienst (OD), the Landelijke Knokploegen (LKP), 
and the Raad van Verzet (RVV). 
Because there was a shortage of former resistance fighters, however, many other (young) men could also join the BS after the war.
Rudolf was arrested in Amsterdam on 18-04-1942, along with Jacob “Jaap” Knol, 
during a raid by the SD at the address Noorder Amstellaan 143 in Amsterdam. On 07-10-1943, Jaap Knol was transferred to Amersfoort (block 3), on 26-10-1943, transferred to Natzweiler. (5590) Night and Fog prisoner. On 06-09-1944, transferred to Dachau. ( 102464 ), 27-09-1944 transferred to Gröditz (subcamp of the Flossenbürg concentration camp). 
No. 28 250 Employed in the steel factories in Gröditz. Very poor hygienic conditions. Died from exhaustion and typhus. Fellow prisoner Ruud Bernardus (Velo) Bierman 
buried him. Ruud survived the war. He has pointed out places where deceased prisoners are buried. The cemetery by the railway was cleared in October 2003, and the remains found were transferred to the municipal cemetery. At this cemetery, a memorial monument has been erected for the deceased forced labourers of the steel factories. Jacob “Jaap”. Knol was also reburied there. Ruud Bierman passed away in 2014.
Death and burial ground of Hartogs, Rudolf.
There is no record anywhere of the crime for which both men were arrested and what happened immediately afterwards. It is known that Jakob Knol (Amsterdam, 17-04-1914) was imprisoned in Camp Amersfoort 
from 06-11-1942, to 16-01-1943, then in Camp Vught 
until March 11, then stayed at an unknown location until 25-10-1943, was transported to Natzweiler 
on 25-10-1943, and from there directly to Dachau 
on September 6. Some sources say that he was also directly transferred from there, this time to the Flossenbürg 
concentration camp, where he allegedly died on 27-09-1944, at the age of only 31. However, another source reports that he would not have been in Aussenlager Gröditz until 02-04-1945, just before his 31st birthday. Aussenlager Gröditz was an external camp of the Flossenbürg concentration camp from 27-09-1944, to 17-04-1945, where nearly 1,000 men were employed in the construction of Flak anti-aircraft guns 
for the Mitteldeutsche Stahlwerke of the Friedrich Flick 
concern. They worked and were housed in a separate part of the machine construction factory. The trajectory of Rudolf Hartogs is not known. He was one of the members of the Ordedienst who were sentenced to death on 27-04-1943, in camp Haaren and were executed on 03-05-1943, on the Leusderheide. Buried in a mass grave, but reburied to the the Rusthof General Cemetery in Amersfoort at Dodeweg 31, Leusden. His grave number is 604186, (section/plot designation 449)l.
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