 Kreiten was condemned to death and executed by hanging at the Plötzensee prison in Berlin in 1943.In 2003, Van Dijk spent the last year of his life completing the composition to be entitled "Kreitens Passion", to text by German dramaturge Heinrich Riemenschneider.Van Dijk lived to attend all three performances at the World premiere of "Kreitens Passion" in the Tonhalle Düsseldorf performed by the Düsseldorfer Symphoniker, baritone Andreas Schmidt, and the American conductor John Fiore in October 2003.