The fallen resistance people in Limburg

Marinus Johannes Pereira (Rinus)

Het Grote Gebod – L.O.

In the spring of 1944, a combat group (K.P.) Reuver was formed by B. Verstappen. Other members were J.H. Goossens, G. Janssen, M.J. Pereira (a man in hiding from The Hague), A.M. Roelofs, and B. Hegger. An air raid shelter on the Patersweg in Belfeld was used as a meeting place. Before it had served for a time as a transit station for escaped prisoners of war on their wa back home. Ummels and Pereira were shot by Nitsch and Conrad by order of Ströbel (all members of the Maastricht security police) on the railroad line between Belfeld and Reuver. [1]
His name is on the war memorial on Patersweg, 5951 NC – Belfeld. [4]
This person is listed in the “Erelijst 1940-1945” (Honor Roll of the Dutch Parliament). [2]

Footnotes

1. Dr. F. Cammaert, Het Verborgen Front – Geschiedenis van de georganiseerde illegaliteit in de provincie Limburg tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Doctorale scriptie 1994, Groningen
   6. De Landelijke Organisatie voor hulp aan onderduikers, p. 589
2. Erelijst 1940-1945
3. Oorlogsgravenstichting.nl
4. https://www.4en5mei.nl/oorlogsmonumenten/zoeken/28/belfeld-oorlogsmonument