Arrival & training in England.
According to Eddie de Roever, Tobias was not scheduled to be interrogated until November 3rd 1943; he was assigned RVPS number 17107, Rein received number 17108, and Jules 17103. However, the first report on this interrogation is dated October 14th 1943. Tobias’s escape story was compared with those of Rein Bangma and Jules Goossens. After a second interrogation, his account was compared with that of Bangma and Schrader (RVPS no. 17114). Tobias was also questioned closely about his father’s activities. Why the British distrusted Tobias Sr. has been described earlier, but it remains a matter of speculation. So far, no reports or interrogation records concerning him have come to light.
During the interrogations, Tobias was questioned about which contacts he had in the Netherlands and what activities he had undertaken during the war years.
All of this can be found in the RVPS report on Tobias dated October 14th 1943. In order to avoid having to include all the pages of the report, an overview is given below of the persons mentioned, the roles they played, and how Tobias had come to know them.
During the interrogations, Tobias was questioned about which contacts he had in the Netherlands and what activities he had undertaken during the war years.
All of this can be found in the RVPS report on Tobias dated October 14th 1943. In order to avoid having to include all the pages of the report, an overview is given below of the persons mentioned, the roles they played, and how Tobias had come to know them.
Henk Pelser, through him Tobias met the staff of the underground newspaper Parool in 1942.
Frans Goethart, ex-editor of the newwspaper Het Handelsblad or of De Telegraaf in Amsterdam. Was imprisoned in Camp Vught, but managed to escape in September 1943.
Koos Vorrink, he was one of the chief editors of Parool..
Jan Stallinga, chief editor, lives in Amsterdam.
Warendorf, Tobias had heard about him, but he had aleady left for England when Tobias joined Parool.
Jan Bakker, member of the resistance group O.D. in Santpoort, an aircraft mechanic with the Navy Aviation Service.
Siem Bakker, also member of the O.D. in Santpoort, torpedo specialist with the Navy.
Henny Meijer, chied editor of the underground paper B.C. Nieuws.
Reginald Giddey, RAF officier. Address: c/o R.A.A.F. Kingsway, London.
Jean, Belgium, courier who would thake Giddey to Brussels.
Van Schagen, photographer lived in the Ferdinant Bolstraat street in Amsterdam. He made pictures for the fake ID card of Giddey. Tobias knew him from before the war, the man never asked questions.
Ken Shannon, RAF Observer. Balder took him into his home and transported him to Amsterdam. Giddey was disquised as a firefighter. RAF nr. 623175, 27 Upper Tellington Park, London N 4.
James Guy, RAF wireless operator. Taken in by Balder en and transported to Amsterdam also diquised asa firefighter. RAF nr. 11300249, The Warren, 42 Monkhams Drive, Woodferd Green, Essex.
Gotlib, Dutch policeman, lived in Langendijk and helper of Balder.
Sape Kuyper, friend of Tobias, shot on October 1st 1943.
Piet, or Kees, BAKKER, a British secret agent. He lived at 50 Landzichtlaan in Heemstede. Bakker was probably imprisoned in Scheveningen. Bakker had a brother who taught at the University of Amsterdam, but he too had been arrested, for reasons that are unclear. Bakker was married to Sofie, who came from Breda, and they had a baby who was born three days after Bakker’s arrest. His house was searched after his arrest; the authorities were looking for a radio set, but none was found. Bakker’s defense was being handled by someone named Rutting, who in turn was a friend of Henk Pelser.
Jan, Tobias met him at Bakker's home in Heemstede, also a British agent (D-Section?). Height 1 meter 73, age about 37 years, dark hair.
Willy Gutteling, female friend of Tobias, lived in The Hague, Beeklaan 450. Would try to help Tobias to escape out of Holland.
Hans Polderman, took over Tobias' work at Het Parool, was also living in Santpoort.
Bert de Goede, studied like Bangma at the Nautical School in Amsterdam. Took over Rein's position at Het Parool. Escaped later also to England and became also a BBO secret agent, located in Rotterdam.
In the RVPS rapport from October 20th 1943 Tobias gives more details about the people he had mentioned before and he also mentions other people he knows who are part of the resistance in Holland.
De Vries, policeman in Santpoort, reliable and informs Tobias about razzia's which will be carried out.
De Bruin, policeman in Santpoort, same role.
Van der Kolk, policeman in Santpoort, same role.
Van Olven, stockbroker from Bloemendaal. Travels on a regular basis to Basel, Switzerland on business trips and takes along letter for Tobias Sr. in England which are posted in Switzerland.
Could his name be Van Olphen?
Anton Bangma, Tobias had known him before he got to know his brother Rein. He met Anton through the previously mentioned Henny Meyer of “B.C. Nieuws / Je Maintiendrai.” Tobias is said not to have done very much for this newspaper until 1943, when he began helping Anton with its distribution.
Henk Pelser, Tobias knew Henk already from before the war, through him he came into contact with the underground newspaper Het Parool. Pelser was arrested in March 1943, but survived the camps..
Bram Kuyper, received each month 150 copies of Het Parool through Henk Pelser to be distributed.
Giddey, through Tobias he was able to escape to Switzerland via a Parool escape route, the route began in Amsterdam and ended in Switzerland.
Iet, Tobias got to know this Belgian woman through Henk Pelser, and she worked for the courier line of Het Parool. According to Tobias, she lived at 48 Nicolaas Maesstraat in Amsterdam. Pelser also used this address himself from time to time.
Jean, also a courier, who also sometimes lives at the address on Nicolaas Maesstraat. According to Tobias, he may be the husband of the aforementioned Iet. Through Iet, Tobias got to know Jean. Giddey was handed over by Tobias to Jean at Bergweg station in Rotterdam. Jean was to escort Giddey to Brussels, where he would hand Giddey over to an English escape organization.
Maarten, a cover name for a man from the Parool organization named Han; before the war he was an administrative employee at KLM. He was from Groningen and studied law. He is sometimes referred to as “Admiral Tromp.”
Erik, before he joined Het Parool, he was a reporter at the Utrechtsche Dagblad. Warendorf knew him, and he was offered the opportunity to go to England to work there for Radio Oranje. This must be van Heuven Goedhart.
Sape Kuiper, student. Henk Pelser already knew him from before the war. He lived in the same courtyard off the Prinsengracht as Pelser. He has a brother named Bram, a medical student. Contact with the Kuiper brothers was established through Suzie and Dick van Stokkum, brother and sister and both students in Amsterdam. They also worked for Pelser in the distribution department of Het Parool. Sape Kuyper was arrested on July 22nd 1943, and this was reported in the newspaper Deutsche Zeitung.
Pooters, member of a communist resistance movement (CS-6) and leader of this group. According to Bram Kuiper, Pooters was directed by the British SIS. The SIS section consists of a chief and two deputy chiefs, one of whom is Piet Bakker.
Jan, chief of the dutch cel of a British intelligence organisation. This is probably the same person Tobias met at Bakker's in Heemstede.
Hans Krebs, lives in Londen and is with the British Army.Britse leger. Hans is a brother of Horst Krebs who is married to Tobias's half-sister Dorothea Biallosterski.
After this second interrogation, Tobias was placed at the disposal of the Dutch armed forces on November 1st 1943.
On December 12th 1943, another MI5 report on Tobias was issued. They were unable to find any incriminating evidence.
De Vries, policeman in Santpoort, reliable and informs Tobias about razzia's which will be carried out.
De Bruin, policeman in Santpoort, same role.
Van der Kolk, policeman in Santpoort, same role.
Van Olven, stockbroker from Bloemendaal. Travels on a regular basis to Basel, Switzerland on business trips and takes along letter for Tobias Sr. in England which are posted in Switzerland.
Could his name be Van Olphen?
Anton Bangma, Tobias had known him before he got to know his brother Rein. He met Anton through the previously mentioned Henny Meyer of “B.C. Nieuws / Je Maintiendrai.” Tobias is said not to have done very much for this newspaper until 1943, when he began helping Anton with its distribution.
Henk Pelser, Tobias knew Henk already from before the war, through him he came into contact with the underground newspaper Het Parool. Pelser was arrested in March 1943, but survived the camps..
Bram Kuyper, received each month 150 copies of Het Parool through Henk Pelser to be distributed.
Giddey, through Tobias he was able to escape to Switzerland via a Parool escape route, the route began in Amsterdam and ended in Switzerland.
Iet, Tobias got to know this Belgian woman through Henk Pelser, and she worked for the courier line of Het Parool. According to Tobias, she lived at 48 Nicolaas Maesstraat in Amsterdam. Pelser also used this address himself from time to time.
Jean, also a courier, who also sometimes lives at the address on Nicolaas Maesstraat. According to Tobias, he may be the husband of the aforementioned Iet. Through Iet, Tobias got to know Jean. Giddey was handed over by Tobias to Jean at Bergweg station in Rotterdam. Jean was to escort Giddey to Brussels, where he would hand Giddey over to an English escape organization.
Maarten, a cover name for a man from the Parool organization named Han; before the war he was an administrative employee at KLM. He was from Groningen and studied law. He is sometimes referred to as “Admiral Tromp.”
Erik, before he joined Het Parool, he was a reporter at the Utrechtsche Dagblad. Warendorf knew him, and he was offered the opportunity to go to England to work there for Radio Oranje. This must be van Heuven Goedhart.
Sape Kuiper, student. Henk Pelser already knew him from before the war. He lived in the same courtyard off the Prinsengracht as Pelser. He has a brother named Bram, a medical student. Contact with the Kuiper brothers was established through Suzie and Dick van Stokkum, brother and sister and both students in Amsterdam. They also worked for Pelser in the distribution department of Het Parool. Sape Kuyper was arrested on July 22nd 1943, and this was reported in the newspaper Deutsche Zeitung.
Pooters, member of a communist resistance movement (CS-6) and leader of this group. According to Bram Kuiper, Pooters was directed by the British SIS. The SIS section consists of a chief and two deputy chiefs, one of whom is Piet Bakker.
Jan, chief of the dutch cel of a British intelligence organisation. This is probably the same person Tobias met at Bakker's in Heemstede.
Hans Krebs, lives in Londen and is with the British Army.Britse leger. Hans is a brother of Horst Krebs who is married to Tobias's half-sister Dorothea Biallosterski.
After this second interrogation, Tobias was placed at the disposal of the Dutch armed forces on November 1st 1943.
On December 12th 1943, another MI5 report on Tobias was issued. They were unable to find any incriminating evidence.
Three weeks after being placed at the disposal of the Dutch armed forces, Tobias was already at an SOE training centre, STS-7 in Winterfold, Surrey. This school was called the Student Assessment Board.
On December 4th 1943, a report was drawn up on Tobias’s stay at STS-51, the parachute training school at Ringway near Manchester.
On the evening December 21st 1943, Tobias arrived at STS-22, Rhubana Lodge, Morar, Inverness-shire. There, on December23rd 1943, Tobias wrote two letters, one to his father and one to his cousin Mia Lacosta-Biallosterski, who had also gone into exile in England. These letters did not pass censorship, and Tobias was confronted about this. He subsequently rewrote both letters, which were sent for review to STS headquarters on December27th. On December 30th, Tobias was recalled from STS-22 to London. A day earlier, a report had been drawn up on Tobias’s stay at STS-22, stating that Tobias’s awareness of security left much to be desired.
Several months later, on March 2nd 1944, a report was compiled on Tobias’s performance at STS-40, where he was instructed in the use of the S-Phone, the Eureka beacon, and the organization of Reception Committees.
Shortly before his first mission in the Netherlands, on March 23rd 1944, a report was drawn up on Tobias’s stay at STS-39, the Hackett School for subversive propaganda. This training was, of course, given in preparation for his first mission: establishing contact between the Dutch government in London and the underground press in the Netherlands.
On the night of March 31st to April 1st 1944, Tobias departed with radio operator Jan Steman from the secret airfield at Tempsford to carry out Mission Draughts.
On December 4th 1943, a report was drawn up on Tobias’s stay at STS-51, the parachute training school at Ringway near Manchester.
On the evening December 21st 1943, Tobias arrived at STS-22, Rhubana Lodge, Morar, Inverness-shire. There, on December23rd 1943, Tobias wrote two letters, one to his father and one to his cousin Mia Lacosta-Biallosterski, who had also gone into exile in England. These letters did not pass censorship, and Tobias was confronted about this. He subsequently rewrote both letters, which were sent for review to STS headquarters on December27th. On December 30th, Tobias was recalled from STS-22 to London. A day earlier, a report had been drawn up on Tobias’s stay at STS-22, stating that Tobias’s awareness of security left much to be desired.
Several months later, on March 2nd 1944, a report was compiled on Tobias’s performance at STS-40, where he was instructed in the use of the S-Phone, the Eureka beacon, and the organization of Reception Committees.
Shortly before his first mission in the Netherlands, on March 23rd 1944, a report was drawn up on Tobias’s stay at STS-39, the Hackett School for subversive propaganda. This training was, of course, given in preparation for his first mission: establishing contact between the Dutch government in London and the underground press in the Netherlands.
On the night of March 31st to April 1st 1944, Tobias departed with radio operator Jan Steman from the secret airfield at Tempsford to carry out Mission Draughts.
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