Gerardus Henricus Adrianus van den Heuvel <i>(Gerard)</i>
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Gerardus Henricus Adrianus van den Heuvel is listed in the Resistance Memorial on the
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Gerardus Henricus Adrianus van den Heuvel (Gerard)


 22-07-1900 Made en Drimmelen      06-03-1945 JVA Köln (44)
- Aid to People in Hiding L.O. - Roermond - The clergy -



Oorlogsgravenstichting

    Gerard van den Heuvel CssR was a Redemptorist, just like his colleague Ludo Bleys and, like him, he worked as a chaplain in the parish church Kapel in ’t Zand next to their monastery in Roermond. On December 28, Held arrested Father G.H.A. van den Heuvel. [1]
    Oberfeldwebel Willy Held was one of the main bloodhounds of the paratrooper battalion under Major Ulrich Matthaeas, which terrorized Roermond in winter 44-45. [1][2]
    Ulrich Matthaeas and Oberfeldwebel (master sergeant) Willy Held belonged to the 1st Battalion, 24th Regiment Paratroopers.
    The Gazet van Limburg dedicated an article to him on October 26, 1950, because he was reburied in Roermond. Among other things, it reported on his arrest and imprisonment, stating that Gerard van den Heuvel had been reported to the Germans by Dutch traitors. He was taken to the Klingelpütz, the notorious prison in Cologne, which was nothing less than a concentration camp. His card, which was later found in the card index there, was marked staatsfeindlich (hostile to the state). But unlike his colleague Bleys mentioned above, for example, who later gave his speeches for Radio Oranje under the pseudonym Lodewijk, Father van den Heuvel had never worked directly for the resistance movement. [3#5]
    However, it is hard to imagine that he knew nothing about the resistance work of his close colleague Bleys. It can be assumed that he also did Bleys’ pastoral work on the side and was and is therefore also treated as a resister.
    Read the detailed VERSLAG OVER DE GEVANGENIS EN DOOD VAN PATER VAN DEN HEUVEL (Report on the history and death of Father van den Heuvel), written by his confrere S. Visser on September 8, 1945. [3#7-17]
    In the Redemptorist archives (Erfgoedcentrum Nederlands Kloosterleven) there is an envelope with negatives of photographs of the prison and the cell in Cologne where Father G. van den Heuvel was imprisoned, as well as of his grave, ca. 1950-1970 under the number 20763. [4]
    He was buried in the cemetery in the Redemptorist monastery garden in Roermond. He is listed on the resistance plaque on the associated parish church of Kapel in’t Zand, where he was vicar. [5]
    He is listed in the “Erelijst 1940-1945” (Honor Roll of the Dutch Parliament). [6]

    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.621
    2. Roermond, ’44-’45
    3. Archief Oorlogsgravenstichting (@ Nationaal archief), Dossier Gerard van den Heuvel • #5#7-17
    4. archieven.nl – AR-P039 Archiefinventaris Redemptoristen 20763 – Negatieven van de foto’s van de gevangenis en cel in Keulen waar pater G. van den Heuvel gevangen zat, alsmede van zijn graf, ca. 1950-1970 (1 omslag)
    5. 1. Kloosterbegraafplaats Kapel in ’t Zand
      2. Plaquette aan de kerk Kapel in ’t Zand
    6. Erelijst 1940-1945
    7. Oorlogsgravenstichting.nl
    8. Wikipedia NL: Kapel in 't Zand