Jurriaan Haak ( – ) was a Dutch

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. He was part of the Netherlands national team, playing two matches and scoring two goals. He played his first match on 17 November 1912. He had been a reserve on the national team in the

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in London but did not play. Haak moved with his family from

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in 1904. Like his brothers Jan Haak and Albert Haak he played football for HFC Haarlem. He was also an athlete, and in September 1916 he broke the Dutch record high jump by 10 cm (from 1.69 m to 1.79 m). After his football career he taught mathematics and physics in the Dutch East Indies and later at the

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and was a co-founder of the

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in 1929. During

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he was a member of the

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. He and his wife Jet van Eek were arrested after search of their home revealed ration books forged for people they were sheltering. Via the

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he was deported to the

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, where he was killed (officially reported 'died of

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') in January 1945.

References

* Verkamman, Van der Steen, Volkers (1999) ''De Internationals, de historie van Oranje''. Amsterdam, Weekbladpers BV/Voetbal International.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Haak, Jur 1890 births 1945 deaths Dutch men's footballers Men's association football midfielders Dutch male high jumpers Dutch resistance members HFC Haarlem players Netherlands men's international footballers Footballers from Semarang People who died in Sachsenhausen concentration camp Resistance members who died in Nazi concentration camps Dutch people who died in Nazi concentration camps Dutch civilians killed in World War II Herzogenbusch concentration camp survivors Deaths from dysentery 20th-century Dutch sportsmen

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