Mathias Hendrikus Timmermans <i>(Mathieu)</i>
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Mathias Hendrikus Timmermans is listed in the Resistance Memorial on the
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Mathias Hendrikus Timmermans (Mathieu)


 05-05-1921 Weert      23-11-1944 Kdo HU-Schwesing, Neuengamme (23)
- Weert - Forced Labor -

    Mathieu Timmermans was a truck driver. [1#2]
    What he was arrested for is not clear from what his father P.H. Timmermans wrote about him:
    August 24, 1944 arrested, taken to Roermond, a few days later to Amersfoort and about September 6 to a camp in Germany.
    Hate and betrayal of the NSB, all sorts of things were charged against him and they picked him up in the street. He had good papers, but they tore them up.
    Weert, October 18, 1951
     [1#5]
    The director of the regional employment office, Weert branch, wrote on November 10, 1952: Concerning Timmermans M.H. ... nothing is known in our records.
    I personally know that the person concerned was "picked up" during a raid held and transported to Germany
     [1#12].
    On verzetsmonumentweert.nl a different date of death is given than by his father: He is arrested on September 10, 1944 during a resistance activity. After this he is transferred to Camp Amersfoort. Mathieu Timmermans arrives at the Husum-Swesing camp, an outer camp of the Neuengamme concentration camp in Germany, on September 10, 1944, where he dies of all hardships on November 23, 1944). [2]
    The concentration camp Außenlager Husum-Schwesing (Schleswig-Holstein, on the Wadden Sea) was an sub-camp of the concentration camp Neuengamme, built as accommodation for the forced laborers, who had to build the so called Friesenwall. [3]
    He had the camp number 49356 there. [4]

    Reburied on the National Field of Honor in Loenen, grave  E 30 [6]

    Footnotes

    1. Archief Oorlogsgravenstichting (@ Nationaal archief),
      Dossier Mathieu Timmermans • #2#5#12
    2. verzetsmonumentweert.nl Mathieu Timmermans
    3. KZ Außenlager Husum-Schwesing, (Engelsburg), Wikipedia • NederlandsDeutschEnglish
    4. Digitaal Monument Neuengamme
    5. documentatiegroep40-45.nl
    6. Nationaal Ereveld Loenen
      oorlogsgravenstichting.nl4en5mei.nl, oorlogsmonumenten
      Wikipedia • NederlandsDeutsch
    7. Oorlogsgravenstichting.nl
    8. Wikipedia NL: Kamp Husum-Schwesing