Soren Peter Kristensen

August 20, 1887 (age 56)

Riis Mark, Ousted

The group helped the British Special Operations Executive parachute weapons and supplies into Denmark for distribution to the resistance. The following month De frie Danske reported that several arrestees from Hvidsten had been transferred from Randers to Vestre Fængsel. On 5 July 1945 Kristensen"s remains and those of five others from the group were found in Ryvangen and transferred to the Department of Forensic Medicine of the university of Copenhagen where an inquest the same day showed that he was executed with gunshot wounds to the chest. On 10 July he was together with the seven other executed group members cremated at Bispebjerg Cemetery. In the 2012 Danish drama film Hvidsten Gruppen (This Life) Søren Peter Kristensen is portrayed by Arne Siemsen.

Soren Peter Kristensen

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Background

Kristensen was born in Riis Mark, Ousted on 20 August 1887 as son of farmer Johannes Kristensen and 43-year-old wife Karen Marie née Nielsen and baptized in Ousted church on the 20th Sunday after Trinity the same year.

Career

The group helped the British Special Operations Executive parachute weapons and supplies into Denmark for distribution to the resistance. The following month De frie Danske reported that several arrestees from Hvidsten had been transferred from Randers to Vestre Fængsel. On 5 July 1945 Kristensen"s remains and those of five others from the group were found in Ryvangen and transferred to the Department of Forensic Medicine of the university of Copenhagen where an inquest the same day showed that he was executed with gunshot wounds to the chest.

On 10 July he was together with the seven other executed group members cremated at Bispebjerg Cemetery.

In the 2012 Danish drama film Hvidsten Gruppen (This Life) Søren Peter Kristensen is portrayed by Arne Siemsen.

Membership

In addition to being a member of the Hvidsten group Kristensen was also a coach builder. In March 1944 the Gestapo made an "incredible number of arrests" including in the region of Randers where a number of members of the Hvidsten group were arrested. On 29 June 1944 Kristensen and seven other members of the Hvidsten group were executed in Ryvangen.

On 15 July 1944 De frie Danske reported on the execution of several members of the Hvidsten group.

Six months later the January 1945 issue of the resistance newspaper Frit Danmark (Free Denmark) reported that on 29 June the previous year Kristensen and seven other named members of the Hvidsten group had been executed. In 1945 a memorial stone over the eight executed members of the Hvidsten group was raised near Hvidsten Inn.

Similarly a larger memorial stone for resistance members including the eight executed members of the Hvidsten group has been laid down in Ryvangen Memorial Park.

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