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Limburg 1940-1945,
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The fallen resistance people in Limburg
Piet Billekens was a farmer. He was arrested in Kronenberg at the church raid on October 8, 1944.
The Dienst Identificatie en Berging (Identification and Recovery Service) wrote about him: [1#17]
Taken away by the Germans on October 8, 1944 and brought to the Hermann-Goering-Werke [2] in Watenstedt. [3]
The residents’ registration office of the municipality of Sevenum wrote on May 19, 1952: deceased in Watenstedt-Salzgitter, Drütte hamlet [1#6]
According to the death certificate of the municipality of Watenstedt, he died in Camp 6, Drütte hamlet. [1#11]
This camp was initially used for construction workers, later for prisoners of war and forced laborers. [4]
But the Identification and Recovery Service writes: Died in the hospital of Drüten near Watenstedt [1#17]
Drütte is and was a hamlet without a hospital. So this probably refers to the infirmary of camp 6.
Piet Billekens lies in a grave of honor at the Roman Catholic cemetery in Kronenberg (Horst aan de Maas). [1#16]
His name is on the monument to the deportees from Kronenberg and in Sevenum on the monument at the garden Julianaplantsoen. [5][7]
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