All the fallen resistance people in Limburg

 

Wim A. Rooyackers /Rooijackers

∗ 13-03-1918 Heerlen     † 05-09-1944 Vught (26)
- Heerlen - initial resistance - underground press - Knokploeg - police -

Wilhelmus Antonius (Wim) Rooijackers was a trade correspondent and a member of the mine police. Almost from the beginning of the war he was involved with prisoners of war who had escaped from Germany. (Cammaert III, p. 217) He also was involved in a failed assassination attempt (Cammaert IV, p. 286) and he was active in the group that distributed the illegal magazine Het Parool in South Limburg. (Cammaert XI, p. 1050) He was busted together with the midwife A.M. Bensen-Offermans, who was liberated in the Maastricht prison raid.
But Wim Rooijackers was one of many executed in Vught on Dolle Dinsdag (Mad Tuesday).

• Memorial at the execution site and memorial wall in the National Memorial kamp Vught, in English Herzogenbusch concentration camp
• His mortal remains lie in the (ash pits) behind the crematorium in camp Vught, a.k.a. Herzogenbusch concentration camp
• Erelijst van Gevallenen 1940-1945 van de Staaten-Generaal (List of honour 1940-1945 of the Dutch Parliament)
• Cammaert, Het Verborgen Front (The Hidden Front)
• Oorlogsgravenstichting.nl
• https://www.wo2slachtoffers.nl/bio/52956/Rooijackers-Wilhelmus-Antonius-Wim.htm
• Wikipedia NL: Deppner-executies

wall: left, row 17 #03