Jan Remco Theodoor Campert (Spijkenisse, The Netherlands August 15, 1902 — January 12, 1943[1]) was a journalist, theater critic and writer who lived in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. During the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II Campert was arrested for aiding the Jews. He was held in the Neuengamme concentration camp, where he died.
Campert is best known for his poem "De achttien dooden" ("The Eighteen Dead"), which describes the execution of 15 resistance fighters and three communists by the German occupier. Written in 1941 and based on an account published in Het Parool, the poem was illegally published in 1943 as the first book printed by what would become De Bezige Bij.[2]
He was the father of novelist and poet Remco Campert.
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