Jan Remco Theodoor Campert (Spijkenisse, 15 August 1902 – 12 January 1943)[1] was a Dutch journalist, theater critic and writer who lived inAmsterdam. During theGerman occupation of the Netherlands in World War II Campert was arrested for aidingJews. He was held in theNeuengamme concentration camp, where he died.
Campert is best known for his poem "Het lied der achttien dooden [nl]" ("The Song of the Eighteen Dead"), describing the execution of 18 resistance workers (15 resistance fighters and three communists) by the German occupier. Written in 1941 and based on an account published inHet Parool, the poem was clandestinely published in 1943 as a poetry card (rijmprent) by what became theDe Bezige Bij publishing house[2] to raise money to hide Jewish children.
He was the father of the novelist and poetRemco Campert.
TheJan Campert Prize is named after him.
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