The fallen resistance people in Limburg

Louis Joseph Gulikers

Louis Gulikers was a ceramic worker by profession. [1] Of the five war victims with this profession listed by the Oorlogsgravenstichting (War Graves Institution), four are from Maastricht and the surrounding area and one from Gouda. Both cities are known for their ceramic industries. He worked at N.V. Céramique, one of the Maastricht ceramics factories. On January 6, 1943, he was forced to go to work in Germany. Employer unknown. [2]
He apparently did not return from leave in December, because his short biography on wo2slachtoffers.nl [1] reads: He was arrested on December 8, 1943 and imprisoned in Maastricht. In early September 1944, he was transferred from the Vught camp to Oranienburg (Sachsenhausen concentration camp). He was eventually sent to the Langenstein-Zwieberge camp, a subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp [3.1]. It is reported that he worked there pushing lorries for an underground aircraft factory that was under construction. Lucas Bronkhorst and B. v.d. Brink of Amsterdam stated that during the night of April 11-12, 1945, while being transported from Langenstein to an unknown destination near Bitterfeld (Ger.), he fell out due to exhaustion and was shot on the spot. The latter reported that during the transport Gulikers could no longer stand the ill-treatment by the German guards and had to sit down on the side of the road because of exhaustion. According to the testimony, this was his undoing, as he was subsequently shot.
In his file in the archives of the Oorlogsgravenstichting, which is kept in the National Archives, it also says: Shot during transport from Langenstein concentration camp (Buchenwald). [2#2]
According to his page on oorlogsgravenstichting.nl [4] he died in Bitterfeld Kommando Wolfen. [3.2]
He has no identifiable grave. [1]

Footnotes

1. wo2slachtoffers.nl Gulikers-Louis-Joseph.htm
2. Oorlogsgravenstichting, Dossier Louis Gulikers • #2 • #7
3. Buchenwald
   1. Aussenlager Langenstein-Zwieberge • Nederlands • Deutsch • English • Français • Español
   2. Aussenlager Bitterfeld-Wolfen
   3. KZ Buchenwald
4. Oorlogsgravenstichting.nl
5. http://www.maastrichtsegevelstenen.nl/0.OORLOG/oorlog2c-verzet.htm