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Limburg 1940-1945,
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The fallen resistance people in Limburg
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. [1#3] p. 217) He also was involved in a failed assassination attempt [1#4] and he was active in the group that distributed the illegal magazine Het Parool in South Limburg. [1#11]
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). [2]
His mortal remains lie in the asputten (ash pits) behind the crematorium in camp Vught, a.k.a. Herzogenbusch concentration camp. [3.1]
Memorial at the execution site and memorial wall in the National Memorial kamp Vught. [3.2]
This person is listed in the “Erelijst 1940-1945” (Honor Roll of the Dutch Parliament). [5]
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