Jan Campert, born in 1902, was a journalist, theater critic and writer, living in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. During the second World War Campert was arrested for aiding the Jews. He was held in the Neuengamme concentration camp, where he died on the 12th of January 1943.

Campert is best known for his poem "De achttien doden" (The eighteen dead), describing the sacrifices made by the resistance against the German occupation. Written in 1941, the poem was illegally published in 1943.