Michael Westergård Jensen (25 October 1916 – 23 June 1944) was a merchant and member of the Danish resistance executed by the

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occupying power.

Biography

Jensen was born in Randers on 25 October 1916 as fourth child to porter on the Hadsund railway Christen Mikael Jensen and wife Ane Johanne née Jensen and baptized ''Michael Westergaard Jensen'' in Saint Peter's Church, Randers on the second Sunday in

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. In 1931 Jensen was confirmed in Hadsund on the eighteenth Sunday after

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while residing in southern Hadsund. In March 1944 the

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made an "incredible number of arrests" including ten arrests in the region of

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of the

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. On 29 June 1945 Jensen was buried in Hadsund. A memorial stone for Jensen and 90 other resistance members also exhumed in Ryvangen and buried in their respective home towns was laid down in

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