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The fallen resistance fighters in the dutch province of Limburg
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War Memorial in Aachen-Eilendorf
This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. On the Cauberg in Valkenburg stands the Resistance Memorial of the Province of Limburg near the spot where on September 5, 1944, shortly before the liberation of South Limburg, the men of the Knokploeg (fighting group) South Limburg Sjeng Coenen and Joep Francotte were shot. In the chapel of this memorial, the names of the fallen resistance fighters are written on three walls. There are also people among them who died of the aftermath after their liberation from the camp. But many are not included for various reasons.
There is still a lot of work to do! – 182 pers. ⇒All the fallen resistance people in Limburg | ||
| Ahout,
Ger | ∗ 1919-12-18 Deurne † 1945-02-17 Bergen (L) | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - dutch soldier - L.O. - K.P. - The outskirts of Limburg - Gerardus Wilhelmus Johannes Petrus Ahout was a member of the LO-KP in Deurne. During the liberation of the south of the Netherlands, the Regiment Stoottroepen were founded on September 21, 1944, integrating the resistants of the KP and RVV, including Ger Ahout. “On 17/18 Feb 1945, as a scout of a US patrol, he stayed behind with a wounded friend and subsequently went missing. Found severely mutilated on April 1, 1945.” (Het grote gebod, The Great Commandment, p. 327)
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| Asselmans,
Louis | ∗ 1915-10-23 Maastricht † 1944-03-21 Dachau | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Maastricht - Aardewerker. Aankomst Dachau: 9 feb. 1944. Hersenbloeding. Do you know more? Write us!
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| Aussems,
Johannes | ∗ 1919-11-14 Maastricht † 1944-08-18 Zöschen, Kr. Merseburg | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Maastricht - person in hiding - Johannes Aussems worked in the paper mill in Maastricht. His mother stated that he had to go to Germany (probably in February 1943) for forced labor. Police report after the war: "When her son came home from Germany on leave in May 1944, he was so emaciated from the hardships he had endured that his mother would not let him return to Germany. As already mentioned, he was arrested by the S.D. on 7/7/1944." NA#5 [1] A fellow prisoner told after the war that Johannes had died in the Zöschen penal camp for arrested persons in hiding [2]. As to the circumstances, he would only say that it had been "scandalous." NA#7 [1]. Maastrichtsegevelstenen.nl writes that he was "beaten to death" there [5]. The Zöschen camp was built by Dutch forced laborers between August and September 1944 [2.4]. Finally he was buried on the Nationaal Ereveld (National Field of Honor) in Loenen [3], grave E 1331.
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| Backer, Debacker,
de Willem | ∗ 1894-09-11 Maastricht † 1944-09-06 Leopoldsburg (B) | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Maastricht - Belgium - Willem Debacker had a Maastricht mother and was born in Maastricht. That is why he is mentioned, by the way without any further comment, on maastrichtsegevelstenen.nl [1]. In the Netherlands, 6 September 1944 is called "Dolle Dinsdag" [7] (Mad Tuesday, english and french wiki available), but also in Belgium there was panic among the Germans and their Belgian collaborators because of the rapid advance of the Allies. Thus, 900 political prisoners locked up in the Cavalry Camp of the concentration camp of Beverlo were released by their German guards. Some of them were invited to a luncheon by the inhabitants of Leopoldsburg in a brasserie. A group of Flemish SS men and a German soldier, fleeing from Antwerp on a bicycle, vented their frustration to 22 participants of this meal. Among them was Willem Debacker, one of the just liberated political prisoners. Why had he been in prison? Do you know more? Write us! A few hours later Leopoldsburg was liberated by the Piron brigade. [2] At www.wo2slachtoffers.nl we read the following [6]: Lived in Leopoldsburg. Son of administrator Gerardus Johannes De Backer (born in Kortgene) and Victoire Adrienne Hélène Royen (born in Maastricht). Married. Day labourer. Roman Catholic. He was detained as a political prisoner. Debacker, as the Belgians write, is one of the 22 victims, who were shot on 6 September 1944 around 6:30 in the evening by some SS men of the retreating division Langemarck. At the approach of the Allied troops, 900 prisoners had been released that day. Residents of Leopoldsburg provided shelter for Debacker and a number of other former prisoners and gave them a good meal. During this ‘freedom feast’ SS men stormed in, herded the participants together and made them walk towards a canal. There they were shot. The part of the creek, where the drama took place, has since been called the Treurgracht(Mourning Trench) and the part of the IJzerlei, where the memorial with, among others, Debacker’s name is located, has been changed into the Martelarenstraat. The SS men involved were sentenced to death or life-long forced labor. About the killing of the 22 victims the book „6 september 1944 - De Fusillade te Leopoldsburg“ (6 September 1944 - The Fusillade at Leopoldsburg) by Marius Louche has been published [3]. Some documents about him can be seen at www.nationaalarchief.nl/. [4]
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| Beazar,
Gustaaf | ∗ 1908-07-29 Aspelare † 1944-09-12 Heer | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Heer - Belgium - Secret Army (B) -
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| Beerman,
Wilhelmus Adrianus Wim | ∗ 1909-08-20 Amsterdam † 1944-06-06 Overveen | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Nijmegen - police - The outskirts of Limburg - Wilhelmus Adrianus Beerman was a police photographer and detective. During the Second World War, he was a member of a resistance group in Nijmegen in which in particular a number of police officers were active. The group carried out an attack on the traitor Ederveen on the Daalseweg on September 24, because he knew too much. However, Ederveen managed to escape and to alert the Germans. As a result, dozens of people were arrested on September 27, and on June 6, 1944, the five most important members of this resistance group were executed in the dunes near Overveen.
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| Bellefroid,
Marcel | ∗ 1922-07-16 Maastricht † 1944-01-11 Maastricht | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Maastricht - Marcel Marie Jules Victor Bellefroid was a painter, watercolorist and illustrator in Maastricht. [1] In October 1943, he was arrested and imprisoned by the Nazis in Amsterdam. None of the websites that mention him give a reason for this, but maastrichtsegevelstenen.nl calls him a resistance fighter. [4] Do you know more? Write us! Because of the bad conditions during his imprisonment, an old illness came back. After 6 weeks he was back home in Maastricht and died shortly after of bone tuberculosis. Gemeentelijke begraafplaats (municipal cemetery) at the Tongerseweg, Maastricht, grave S 049 The drawing with the adjacent text on his funeral card [3] is Marcel’s own work.
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| Berets,
Ernst | ∗ 1898-10-16 Krefeld † 1943-01-31 Auschwitz | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Maastricht - Jew - On maastrichtsegevelstenen.nl [4] Ernst David is mentioned as a resistance fighter. Why? He came from a Jewish family with many children. His father was Dutch, his mother German. They had moved to Krefeld after the First World War and had a wholesale business with fruit and vegetables as well as a transport business. Ernst began spying for the Dutch consulate in the 1930s. When their business was destroyed during the so-called Reichskristallnacht (November 9-10, 1938), Ernst and his wife Adèle fled to Venlo. Later they moved to Maastricht. From there, he regularly visited a pub in the Belgian town of Welkenraedt, west of the then still German town of Eupen, where the Aachen-Liège railroad line crossed the border. Since he spoke German without an accent, he was able to unobtrusively sound out the German train drivers about German train movements, cargo, and so on. Arrested on May 18, 1940, during a visit to his mother in Amsterdam, on charges of espionage. On August 24, 1942, sentenced in Berlin to five years in prison with deduction of pre-trial detention. In December 1942, Ernst was transferred to Auschwitz. There he died of "heart failure" on January 18, 1943, indicating that he was shot by the executioner Walther Quakernack. [1] On May 4, 2017, the Pentateuch, the five books of Moses looted by the Nazis from Fritz Berets’ brother, was returned in Maastricht to Alexander Berets, Ernst’s son. This Pentateuch had been discovered shortly before in the Judaica Department of the library of the Free University of Berlin. [2]
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| Beunen,
Bèr Bertus | ∗ 1917-01-01 Ohé en Laak † 1945-01-18 Echt | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Echt - L.O. - municipality - Civil servant / member of the resistance. Shot by the Germans on January 18, 1945 during the liberation in connection with the support of the Allies. [1] Do you know more? Write us!
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| Beyleveld,
Johan | ∗ 1916-03-21 Maastricht † 1945-01-14 Neuengamme | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Maastricht - person in hiding - Johan Beyleveld was a porcelain decorator in the ceramics industry of Maastricht. Probably to evade the forced Arbeitsdienst in Germany, he had gone into hiding. Is that resistance? In fact it is, maastrichtsegevelstenen.nl [6] finds. Also on the walls in the resistance monument of the province of Limburg (NL) are some people for this reason, but Johan is not among them.
He was caught and taken to Amersfoort on August 28, 1944. There, in his file, the reason for his arrest is "Arbeitsverweigerung" (work refusal) [2]. On 6 September 1944, so on Dolle Dinsdag [7] (Mad Tuesday), a few days before the liberation of Maastricht, he was transported to Germany. [1]
He died in Neuengamme as a result of ill-treatment, but the Sterbeurkunde (death certificate) states "Lungenentzündung" (pneumonia) [3].
There is an enigmatic stamp of the Bureau Bijzondere Rechtspleging (Bureau of Special Justice) in his file in the national archives [1] with the text: "From the archives housed at the Ministry of Justice it appears that during the occupation period the person concerned was guilty of political acting …(illegible) conduct, which led to the imposition of any punishment or measure by organs of the Special Justice, with a date stamp: April 22, 1958. After the liberation of the Netherlands, the purpose of this Bureau Bijzondere Rechtspleging was to try all those who had been guilty during the Second World War of, in particular, collaboration, high treason and war crimes. Even if that would have applied to this victim of Neuengamme, he could not be tried, because he was already dead. Do you know more? Write us!
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| Bleijs (Bleys),
Ludovicus (Ludo) Adrianus Lodewijk | ∗ 1906-10-17 Tilburg † 1945-08-15 Gorinchem | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Roermond - L.O. - K.P. - Ludo Bleijs’ surname is also spelled Bleys, and sometimes Louis is given as his first name. His resistance name was Lodewijk. During the war he was a member of the Redemptorist monastery in Roermond and together with his fellow Gerard van den Heuvel at the neighboring parish church Kapel in ’t Zand works as a vicar. He was one of the founders of the L.O. in the Roermond region. Cammaert writes in chapter VIb on p. 611: “Father Bleijs and secretary Moonen took the initiative to found the Limburgse Onderduikershuip in Central Limburg.” (L.O., Limburgian Aid to Divers. So they called the people in hiding. Later they became part of the national organization.) He was the inventor of the Limburg divers’ symbol “Our Lady of the Good Dive”. He became too well known to the SiPo and had to go into hiding himself, but he didn’t want that. So he was kidnapped by the KP group of Helden and sent to England to report to the Dutch government-in-exile in August 1944 about the resistance in Limburg. There he praised the LO very much, but the predominantly social-democratic RVV and the underground press were too left-wing for him. He became a Catholic field vicar to the military staff of Prince Bernhard in the rank of major. At Wikipedia NL (see link) we read as follows: “After the war he traveled with his resistance colleague Frits Slomp to talk about the background of the resistance. In 1945 he was on his way to a lecture in a jeep driven by Paul Dijckhoff. On the Arkel Dike near Gorinchem, a tire burst and the car fell off the dike road. Buried under the vehicle, Bleys was seriously injured and died in hospital later that day. An examination of the car revealed that a front wheel had come loose and the bolt holes had been torn. Whether this was wear and tear or intentional could not be determined. Allegedly, the jeep was being serviced at a workshop in Utrecht, where some paroled NSB members worked, who said they could easily arrange a car crash. It has never been clarified whether sabotage was actually committed. So his name is not on the wall of the chapel of the Limburg Provincial Resistance Monument in Valkenburg. What is certain, however, is that he gave his life during his work for the resistance. That’s why he is on this list.
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| Blijdestein,
van Louis | ∗ 1915-05-19 Sittard † 1945-03-15 Midden-Europa | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Sittard - Laborant B.P.M. / Lid verzet Do you know more? Write us!
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| Bloemgarten,
Rudolf | ∗ 1920-05-07 Maastricht † 1943-07-01 Bloemendaal | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Maastricht - inw. Maastricht This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel.- |
| Bode,
de Nelly | ∗ 1905-09-07 Heer † 1944-01-16 Vught | ♀ - This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Maastricht - gestikt This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel.- |
| Boer,
de Willem | ∗ 1908-07-16 Amsterdam † 1942-05-11 Oranienburg | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Maastricht - gefusilleerd This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel.- |
| Bos,
André | ∗ 0000-00-00 † 1943-02-12 Neuengamme | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Maastricht - CPN - André Bos was a party member of the CPN. According to their archive (ARCH00347.148) he was a peat worker. Of course, he could not have practiced this profession in Maastrichti. Arrested several times: on 28 February 1941 together with Lambert Kraft, Chris Heuts, J.J. Baartscheer and Bernhard Holty, by order of the BdS Den Haag in connection with the February strike, on 25 June 1941 together with Lambert Kraft and Bernhard Holty. (Cammaert) Last arrest on Sept.16, 1942 in Maastricht. (ARCH00347.148) Do you know more? Write us!
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| Bosch,
ten Berend | ∗ 1893-03-26 Charlois † 1942-05-11 Oranienburg | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Maastricht - gefusilleerd This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel.- |
| Broek,
van de Cornelis | ∗ 1907-07-21 Heer † 1945-03-12 Rotterdam | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Maastricht - gefusilleerd This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel.- |
| Broens /Brouns,
Harie /Henri | ∗ 1925-02-18 Molenbeersel † 1944-09-14 Gangelt (D) | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Belgium - Secret Army (B) - He lived in Molenbeersel, Belgian Limburg. Originally buried in a mass grave in Gangelt (D). Last resting place: Unknown (Source: Memorial for seven executed Belgian resistance fighters, bel-memorial.be)
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| Brouwer,
Leo | ∗ 1907-06-01 Nijmegen † 1943-05-02 Wellerlooi | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Maastricht - begr. Maastricht This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel.- |
| Brouwers,
Hendrikus Antonius Hubertus | ∗ 1919-10-09 Maastricht † 1945-03-14 Neuengamme | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Maastricht - L.O. - Commercial traveller. Over fifty people were arrested due to the betrayal of Gonnie Zeguers-Boere, including a hidden person whom she had taken into her home in order to give the impression that she could be completely trusted, as well as H. Brouwers who had brought the hider to her. (Cammaert VIb, from page 651.) See also: The Treason of Maastricht
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| Buikes,
Jacob | ∗ 1903-02-22 Den Haag † 1942-05-11 Oranienburg | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Maastricht - gefusilleerd This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel.- |
| Burger,
Willem | ∗ 1918-09-28 Amsterdam † 1942-05-11 Oranienburg | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Maastricht - gefusilleerd This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel.- |
| Cahn,
David Leo | ∗ 1923-12-07 Maastricht † 1942-08-14 Auschwitz | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Maastricht - Jew - early resistance - Group Dresen - Jewish butcher’s son, residing at Lenculenstraat 9 in Maastricht. He belonged to the civilian branch of the Dresen group, which was mainly engaged in the distribution of illegal leaflets and writings. For example, to finance the purchase of weapons, pictures of the royal family were sold. On May 21, 1941, David Leo was arrested by the SiPo Maastricht because signs "Verboden voor Joden" (Forbidden for Jews) had been destroyed in the city park. A stumbling stone was placed in the sidewalk in front of Lenculenstraat 9.
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| Caubo,
Jean | ∗ 1891-04-28 Maastricht † 1945-02-13 Außenkommando Dautmergen | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Schin op Geul - Dutch-Paris - early resistance - Refugee helper, from Schin-op-Geul, working for Wagons Lits, member of the French-Dutch group Dutch-Paris with the help of his whole family, arrested on February 12 1944. He fell under the German category of Nacht und Nebel prisoner. In this program, many prisoners disappeared without any trace.
More in our story Resistance in Valkenburg Jean Caubo op de lijst van personen die tijdens de bezetting belangrijk waren voor Valkenburg. More in our story Resistance in Valkenburg This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel.01-02 |
| Ceulen,
Alphons | ∗ 1923-10-29 Maastricht † 1945-03-17 Hunswinkel | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Maastricht - inw. Maastricht This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel.- |
| Collas,
Laur | ∗ 1917-07-19 Maastricht † 1943-10-06 Maastricht | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Maastricht - Glassblower, worked as a frontier worker in Aachen. Regularly brought escaped forced laborers and prisoners of war to Maastricht. Shot down from his roof by the SiPo during an escape attempt. Source: Cammaert I, p. 211
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| Conaert,
Hubertus | ∗ 1925-01-19 Maastricht † 0000-00-00 straflager Köln | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Maastricht - vlektyphus Do you know more? Write us!
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| Conen,
Willem | ∗ 1919-03-12 Molenbeersel † 1944-09-12 Heer | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Heer - Belgium - Secret Army (B) - Willem Conen from Molenbeersel was one of the resisters of the Maaseik section of the Secret Army under the leadership of its section chief, gendarme Gustaaf Beazar. Read the story of the Maaseik section of the Secret Army, which came to a tragic end with the approach of the Allies in early September 1944.
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| Corsius,
Johan | ∗ 1913-06-07 Maastricht † 1944-09-08 Maastricht | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Maastricht -  Verzetsman, beroep schoenmaker. [1] Doodgeschoten twee dagen na Dolle Dinsdag. [3] Graf G 74 op Maastricht-Oostermaas. Do you know more? Write us! |
| Crapts,
Nic | ∗ 1913-12-06 Maastricht † 1944-09-13 Ternaaien | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Maastricht - Nic Crapts, lid van de Witte Brigade. Hij is op 13 september 1944 bij het begeleiden van de eerste bevrijders vanaf de hoogte van Caestert beschoten vanuit een van de laatste Duitse mitrailleursnesten en hierbij dodelijk gewond geraakt. Op 19-09-1944 met militaire eer begraven op het kerkhofaan de Tongerseweg (vak D, nr. 7).later overgebracht naar deererotonde graf R2b This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel.- |
| Denis,
Franciscus | ∗ 1907-01-17 ’s-Hertogenbosch † 1944-12-26 Elmpt (D) | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Roermond - person in hiding - Belonged to the 14 Roermonders murdered during Christmas 1944, who were shot just across the German border, in order to expel their male townmates between the ages of 16 and 60. Detailed information on this website: The Tears of Roermond. This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel.04-09 |
| Dieteren,
Jan | ∗ 1912-10-26 Schinnen † 1945-03-01 Neuengamme | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Maastricht - This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel.- |
| Dijk,
van Johan | ∗ 1917-04-23 Maastricht † 1941-01-27 Leusden | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Maastricht - inw Maastricht This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel.- |
| Dobbe,
Theo Hans | ∗ 1901-03-19 Amsterdam † 1944-09-05 Dieren, gem. Rheden | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Nijmegen - early resistance - K.P. - press - The outskirts of Limburg - In his civil profession, Theo Dobbe was a chief representative and active throughout the Netherlands. In the southern part of the country he became the organizer of the LKP, the umbrella organization of the Knokploegen (commandos). In 1943 he became head of the special unit Opruimingsdienst (Clean-up Service). He was not among the fallen who lived in Limburg and is therefore not listed on a wall of the provincial resistance memorial. But both J.W. Hofwijk and Fred Cammaert mention his important role in their respective chapters about the Knokploegen in Limburg. By Royal Decree of September 11, 1951, No. 21, entered in the Register of Knights of the 4th Class of the Military Order of William: …for having distinguished himself in battle by outstanding acts of courage, policy, and loyalty, persistently fighting the enemy occupier with great vigor and ingenuity and in all fields of underground resistance during the period from May 1940 until his heroic death in September 1944, which acts greatly benefited the Allied war effort. In particular, through the following acts, often with imminent danger of death.
Source: De Militaire Willems-Orde Sijthoff Pers ISBN 90-70682-01-X More sources:
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| Driessens,
Pierre | ∗ 0000-00-00 Maaseik † 1944-09-12 Heer | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Heer - Belgium - Secret Army (B) -
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| Dumoulin,
Mathieu | ∗ 1918-03-12 Maastricht † 1944-11-08 Fuhlsbüttel | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Maastricht - This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel.- |
| Eerdekens,
Jozef | ∗ 1922-06-24 Gruitrode (B) † 1944-09-12 Heer | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Heer - Belgium - Secret Army (B) -
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| Eldert,
van Johannes Antonie Jan | ∗ 1894-10-31 Amsterdam † 1944-07-21 Leusden | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Nijmegen - CPN - press - The outskirts of Limburg - Van Eldert, a carpenter, was married to Wilhelmina van de Berg and distributed illegal newspapers, including De Waarheid. On June 17, 1944, at 2:15 a.m., he was arrested by the nefarious Wiebe for having distributed De Waarheid in Nijmegen. At 11 o’clock he and three others were taken by Wiebe and Hidskes to the SD (security police) in Arnhem. On July 21, 1944, in retaliation for attacks on German soldiers, he was executed on the heath of Leusden along with seven other people from Nijmegen, after having previously been forced to dig their own graves. After the war, Van Eldert was buried on Rustoord (D 710) until the fall of 1969. On oorlogsdodennijmegen.nl we read about him [5]: February 18, 2011. Granddaughter J.A. Brugmans by telephone: In 1948 there were plans for a monument on the Wedren for those executed. However, since Van Eldert was a "different thinker", he was a member of the CPN (Communistische Partij Nederland), he could not be buried there. Therefore he was buried in the Rustoord cemetery. In the late 1960s, the lead coffin was moved with the intention of giving him an honorary grave at the Vredehof, but the family refused. "Not then so not now". In the meantime, the lead coffin had disappeared. His mortal remains have been returned to Rustoord. One of the stories about the assassination attempt three weeks later on German soldier Otto Geschefsky says that this was an act of revenge for the arrest of four communist resistance fighters from Nijmegen (Arp Wagter, Jan van Eldert, Piet Treijtel and Piet Span). Another story says that two inexperienced boys, aged 17 and 18, were assigned to take away a list of names of resistance fighters from Nijmegen from this Geschefsky. A girl friend lured him to Kronenburgerpark and they ambushed him. Geschefsky drew his pistol, but was shot himself with it. [1]
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| Erdkamp,
Gerhardus A. Gerrit | ∗ 1915-12-29 Elst † 1945-04-01 Neuengamme | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Elst - L.O. - The outskirts of Limburg - The farmer Gerrit Erdkamp was arrested on October 22, 1943, on suspicion of aiding Allied airmen. [1] He was one of the pioneers of the LO-Elst [2] and belonged to a group composed mainly of municipal officials. Read more about the end of this group in the story about Elst. As we often see in the chaotic final days of the war, there is no agreement for his date of death. On oorlogsgravenstichting.nl [5] it says 8 April 1945 in the Kommando Beendorf. This refers to the "SS-Arbeitslager A3", (SS work camp A3) near Beendorf near Helmstedt, which was, among other things, a sub-camp of Neuengamme. [3] According to his family’s obituary, he died on transport near Stendal. [4] That is about 80 km east of Beendorf. There were many terrible transports taking place at that time, similar to the death marches. The honor roll of the Dutch Parliament [6] gives April 1, 1945. |
| Ettema,
Dominicus Hylarius /Hilarius | ∗ 1897-08-03 Wymbritseradiel † 1945-01-11 Neuengamme | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Nijmegen - L.O. - The outskirts of Limburg - Dominicus Ettema was deputy director of the cooperative dairy in Zeddam (municipality of Bergh, Montferland) [1] and was listed in the files of the SD/SiPo (Security Service/Security Police) as a local contact person of the LO-Bergh. Ettema probably admitted this during the interrogations. But he was more than that. If he was a local contact person for those in hiding, it must have been in his place of residence, Zeddam. In Bergh he was one of the founders of the LO, so he could have been sub-district leader there and concealed this for good reason. On June 14, 1944, he was captured as a result of another arrest in which incriminating material was seized. A detailed article with photos about him can be found on berghapedia.nl [2]. On oorlogsdodendinkelland.nl/ there are less details. There we read about him [3]: Dominicus lived as a boarder at DD 217 in Denekamp from June 1920 to May 1921. Then he moved to Zeddam, where he became deputy director of the dairy. In Zeddam, his last residence, Ettemastraat is named after him [5.1] and he is listed on the war memorial [5.2].
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| Evers,
Johannes Hendrikus Jan | ∗ 1917-05-03 Oosterhout (Valburg) † 1944-07-21 Leusderheide | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Nijmegen - early resistance - K.P. - press - The outskirts of Limburg - Jan Evers ran a car repair shop, was married and father of one child. They lived in Nijmegen. He began typing and distributing illegal newspapers, including Vrij Nederland, in 1941 [1.1]. Besides that, the website of Kamp Vught (German: Konzentrationslager Herzogenbusch) states in his life description [1.1]: Johannes was arrested by the SD (Security Service) in Arnhem during 1941 and subsequently imprisoned in Scheveningen for four months. Shortly after his release, Johannes was suspected of transporting ammunition and was jailed for 18 days in Arnhem Prison. On April 29, 1944, Johannes was arrested for the last time and then transferred to Kamp Vught because he had probably been betrayed. On July 21, 1944, Johannes was shot by the Germans near the camp. He helped the KP (armed group) of Nijmegen to free resisters from prison. He also transported weapons and helped Jews. Contact person for the LO-Breda. [4]
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| Fauchey,
Antoine | ∗ 1918-07-15 Rotterdam † 1942-05-11 Oranienburg | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Maastricht - gefusilleerd This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel.- |
| Förster,
Maria Anna Clara Mies | ∗ 1915-11-16 Helmond † 1945-03-18 Heerlen | ♀ - This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Heerlen - L.O. - - Nurse, assistant to the medical examiner at the municipal employment office in Heerlen. "She saved numerous approved persons from being sent to Germany for forced labour by changing medical certificates on a large scale and by signing rejection certificates herself." [1] She forged "the signature of doctor Winters from Kerkrade. Winters was an N.S.B. (Dutch Nazi party) member who approved almost everyone who was examined by him for forced labour in Nazi Germany". She worked together with the trade unionist Jan Maenen, who "treated" people with a drug that caused eczema. Mies Förster then took care of a flawless rejection. [2] She was watched by an N.S.B. colleague by order of the SiPo Maastricht and had to go into hiding in 1943. "Her successor, Miss M.A.P. Duysens, continued Förster’s activities." [1] Their colleagues in Venlo and Roermond did the same. She also carried out courier services. As a result of her resistance work, she contracted a serious illness from which she succumbed on 18 March 1945. [4]. According to De Nieuwe Mijnstreek [3] she saved hundreds of boys from the hands of the enemy.
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| Franssen,
Joseph | ∗ 1905-10-17 Maastricht † 1944-05-07 Bergen Belsen | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Maastricht - inw Maastricht This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel.- |
| Frantzen,
Petrus | ∗ 1892-12-27 Maastricht † 1943-05-25 Neuengamme | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Maastricht - Grondwerker en inwoner van Maastricht. Op oorlogsgravenstichting.nl staat: Mijn naam is Piet van der linde. E-mail: piet.vanderlinde-t@telfort.nl. Ik ben de kleinzoon van Petrus Frantzen. Mijn moeder was G.J.W.E. Frantzen. Ik ben in het bezit van een redelijk dossier van mijn opa, maar ben nog steeds zoekende. Voor info en of aanvulling kan men mij raadplegen.
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| Frissen,
Theodorus | ∗ 1923-10-29 Maastricht † 1945-03-05 Buchenwald | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Maastricht - inw. Leiden This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel.- |
| Geerlings,
Hermanus Bernardus Arnoldus Herman | ∗ 1917-03-28 Elst † 1945-02-18 Hamburg-Neuengamme | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Elst - L.O. - municipality - The outskirts of Limburg - He was one of the pioneers of the LO-Elst and belonged to a group mainly composed of municipal officials [1]. Read more about the end of this group in the story about Elst. He is buried in Elst. [2] Erelijst van Gevallenen 1940-1945 van de Staten-Generaal (Ehrenliste der Gefallenen 1940-1945 des niederländischen Parlamentes)(List of honour 1940-1945 of the Dutch Parliament)( Liste d’honneur 1940-1945 du parlement néerlandais )(Lista de Honra 1940-1945 do Parlamento Neerlandês) [3] |
| Geuns,
van Ernest George | ∗ 1889-02-28 Soerabaja, NOI † 1944-07-21 Leusden | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Nijmegen - press - The outskirts of Limburg - Retired colonial official (last Hoofdcommies in the then Nederlands Indië, now Indonesia). [9] In 1938, he and his family returned to the Netherlands for the children’s education [1.4] and settled in Nijmegen. During the German occupation, he distributed banned newspapers and belonged to the Nijmegen group of Vrij Nederland. [8] His son Jean René also joined in [1]. They helped smuggle Jewish families into Switzerland and distributed ration cards to people in hiding. Three times he was arrested. On June 29, 1944, he was arrested together with his neighbor Christ Toussaint, and on July 21, 1944, he and seven other Nijmegen citizens were executed on the heath of Leusden in retaliation for attacks on German soldiers, having previously dug his own grave [2]. He is on the list of the fallen of the Dutch Parliament 1940-1945 [3]. After the war Van Geuns was buried in the Daalseweg cemetery (A 29-1-9) until the fall of 1969, later he was moved to the field of honor of the Vredehof cemetery [5] in Nijmegen. In the newspaper De Gelderlander of May 11, 1945, an obituary was published for Ernest George van Geuns, Henricus Lins(s)en, Christiaan Toussaint and Joseph Rodriguez, all of whom, according to the obituary, perished in the Amersfoort camp on July 22, 1944, "having fallen as victims for Nijmegen." [7]
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| Goffin,
Jules G.H.J. | ∗ 1897-03-31 Noville-les-Bois † 1943-10-09 Bunnik (Utrecht) | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Belgium - early resistance - Group Erkens - He was not a resistance fighter in the Dutch province of Limburg, but was in close contact with them and therefore also appears on this list. He was a general practitioner in ’s-Gravenvoeren (Fouron-le-Comte) since 1925. In 1940, he became a member of the Clarence resistance network, of which he became the local leader. He collected a lot of information, among other things, on railroad movements. As a result of the Hannibalspiel he was arrested on October 15, 1942 and locked up in the prison of Saint-Léonard and the Camp Vught (NL). He was shot in Bunnik. He is buried in the cemetery of Fouron-le-Comte. This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel.02-02 |
| Grootheest,
van Gerard | ∗ 1918-10-12 Utrecht † 1942-05-11 Oranienburg | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Maastricht - gefusilleerd This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel.- |
| Gulikers,
Louis | ∗ 1924-05-12 Maastricht † 1944-05-11 Bitterfeld | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Maastricht - gefusilleerd This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel.- |
| Gulikers,
Pieter | ∗ 1893-03-13 Itteren † 1945-03-08 Amsterdam | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Maastricht - Pierre Gulikers, geboren Itteren 13-3-1893, sectiecommandant van de BS in Santpoort-Dorp, werd 8-3-1945 als represaille voor de aanslag op SS-Befehlshaber Rauter samen met 51 anderen in Amsterdam gefusilleerd. This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel.- |
| Hal,
van Petrus P. Piet | ∗ 1918-05-07 † 1945-03-14 Buchenwald, Weimar | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Elst - L.O. - municipality - The outskirts of Limburg - “Also: LO-Gent” [1]. Van Hommerich meant the village of Gendt, about five kilometers northeast of Nijmegen. For the Belgian city of Ghent, of course, had no LO and was also too far away. He was arrested on November 18, 1943, probably by treason,[1] was one of the pioneers of LO-Elst and belonged to a group composed of municipal officials. Read more about the end of this group in the story about Elst. |
| Hanno,
Johannes Hubertus | ∗ 1912-12-05 Roermond † 1944-12-26 Elmpt (D) | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Roermond - person in hiding - Casual worker. Belonged to the 14 Roermonders murdered during Christmas 1944, who were shot just across the German border, in order to expel their male townmates between the ages of 16 and 60. Detailed information on this website: The Tears of Roermond. This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel.04-12 |
| Heijnen,
Pieter | ∗ 1918-02-01 Amby † 1943-11-09 Mühlheim | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Maastricht - difterie This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel.- |
| Hekking,
Henri A. Hens | ∗ 1923-09-21 † 1945-04-16 | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Nijmegen - L.O. - K.P. - - The outskirts of Limburg - Henny Hekking was a member of the Knokploeg (combat group) in Nijmegen, together with, among others, his friends Jules Moormann, George Muskens and Eddy Meulenberg (it is not sure if this is the same Eddy Meulenberg Do you know more? Write us!). He also worked as a courier. During a train check on June 21, 1944, he was arrested and transported to Neuengamme [1]. On April 16, 1945, he died of hunger and exhaustion on the day of his arrival at Sandbostel concentration camp, a subcamp of Neuengamme between Bremen and Hamburg [2]. Buried in Loenen [3]
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| Henderson,
Frans | ∗ 1881-12-26 Maastricht † 1943-11-22 kamp Vught | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Maastricht - inw Maastricht This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel.- |
| Hendriks,
Bartholomeus Theodorus Bart | ∗ 1915-04-16 Nijmegen † 1944-06-06 Overveen, duinen | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Nijmegen - police - The outskirts of Limburg - During the Second World War, he was a member of a resistance group in Nijmegen in which in particular a number of police officers were active. The group carried out an attack on the traitor Ederveen on the Daalseweg on September 24, because he knew too much. However, Ederveen managed to escape and to alert the Germans. As a result, dozens of people were arrested on September 27, and on June 6, 1944, the five most important members of this resistance group were executed in the dunes near Overveen.
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| Hendriks,
Jan | ∗ 1905-05-07 Maastricht † 1943-01-27 kamp Vught | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Maastricht - inw. Maastricht This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel.- |
| Henkens,
Jean | ∗ 1922-07-09 Opoeteren † 1944-09-14 Gangelt (D) | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Belgium - Secret Army (B) - He lived in Gruitrode, Belgian Limburg. Originally buried in a mass grave in Gangelt (D). Last resting place: Unknown (Source: Memorial for seven executed Belgian resistance fighters, bel-memorial.be)
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| Herben,
Johannes | ∗ 1908-01-18 Maastricht † 1944-11-10 kamp Wuppertal-Barmen | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Maastricht - Glasslijper paratyphus
De groep-Versleijen telde een groot aantal medewerkers zoals G.H. Satijn, G.H. Lemson, de burgemeester van Borgharen mr. E.H.A.M. Meijer, mr. M.P.R. Meeuwissen, S.W. Hovens, F. Bouwens, H. Bruls, L.E. Backerra en de koeriersters M. Visser, Jonkman en P. Hennekens.402] Distributiebescheiden, PB’s, valse papieren en andere administratieve benodigdheden werden verkregen van de gemeenteambtenaren P.H. Herben, P.M.J. Tilmans, G.L. Nijs en Smitshuijsen. Met name de eveneens voor de L.O. werkende Tilmans, verbonden aan de afdeling bevolking van de gemeente Maastricht, was van onschatbare waarde voor de groep-Versleijen. Toen hij op 26 juni 1944 onderdook, nam Nijs zijn taak over. 403] In Einde pagina 644 totaal verzorgde de B.G.M.-tak ongeveer driehonderd onderduikers. 404]
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| Hilven,
Jean | ∗ 1924-01-05 Gruitrode † 1944-09-14 Gangelt (D) | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Belgium - Secret Army (B) - He lived in Gruitrode, Belgian Limburg. Originally buried in a mass grave in Gangelt (D). Last resting place: Unknown (Source: Memorial for seven executed Belgian resistance fighters, bel-memorial.be)
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| Hoeben ,
Wilhelmus Hub. | ∗ 1902-02-16 Nederweert † 1945-02-06 Meppen-Versen, Neuengamme | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - L.O. - The outskirts of Limburg - LO-Someren Worker. “Arrested on June 16, 1944 in roundup of Allied airmen.”
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| Hoes,
Gerardus Adrianus Geert | ∗ 1919-02-10 Tilburg † 1945-02-09 | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Nijmegen - Elst - L.O. - municipality - Student - The outskirts of Limburg - Geert Hoes was one of the pioneers of LO-Elst and belonged to a group consisting mainly of municipal officials, including Hendrik Kammeraat, Kees Peters, Gerrit Erdkamp, Herman Geerlings, Piet van Hal, Wouter Hoogakker and himself. They took care of the people who were in hiding in their community. Many of them were "delivered" by the L.O. from neighboring Nijmegen. He was arrested in Arnhem on 26-07-1943 and was in possession of documents for people in hiding. [1] Geert Hoes was a law student at the Roman Catholic University in Nijmegen and also worked in the municipal administration of Elst (between Nijmegen and Arnhem [2]). He was arrested on July 26, 1943, near Arnhem; in his possession were master cards and ration cards for people in hiding, as well as a stamp from the town hall of Elst. A police detective in Arnhem, Van Wier, tried to cover up the case, knowing that Hoes was involved in resistance work. However, the National Criminal Police in The Hague called in the Security Service and Police (SD/SiPo) in Arnhem. In Elst, 15 officers from the distribution office, the police and the town hall were arrested. How they fared during their imprisonment you can read in the introduction to the resistance victims of Elst. Only seven of them returned alive after the liberation. Geert Hoes was killed in February 1945. [4] He is buried in Vught. [7][12] In the entrance hall of the auditorium of Radboud University in Nijmegen, Geert Hoes is inscribed on the memorial plaque for members of the university community who have been killed in World War II. [8]
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| Hokke,
Hendricus | ∗ 1921-05-13 Heerlen † 1945-01-04 Neuengamme | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Maastricht - inw Maastricht This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel.- |
| Hoof,
van Jan Jozef Lambert Redder van de Waalbrug | ∗ 1922-08-07 Nijmegen † 1944-09-19 Nijmegen | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Nijmegen - dutch soldier - L.O. - Ordedienst - The outskirts of Limburg - On September 19, 1944, Jan van Hoof guided an Allied reconnaissance vehicle through the city. On the Nieuwe Markt - today’s Joris Ivensplein - the vehicle was shot on fire. Jan van Hoof survived, but was caught by German soldiers and subsequently killed by gunshot to the head. Posthumously he was awarded the Militaire Willemsorde (MWO, Knight 4th Class)
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| Hoogakker,
Wouter | ∗ 1914-11-15 Dodewaard † 1945-03-20 Kdo. Meppen-Versen, Neuengamme | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Elst - L.O. - The outskirts of Limburg - Wouter Hoogakker was a construction supervisor (at the municipality?) Arrested on November 22, 1943 for issuing ration cards to people in hiding. He was one of the pioneers of the LO-Elst and belonged to a group composed of municipal officials [1], among them Hendrik Kammeraat and Kees Peters. Read more about the end of this group in the story about Elst.
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| Hout,
van Jan | ∗ 1908-10-17 Valkenburg † 1945-02-22 Neuengamme | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Valkenburg - person in hiding - Professional cyclist from 1932 to 1940. On August 25, 1933, he broke the world hour record on the velodrome in Roermond with 44.588 kilometers. After the German invasion, he closed down his pub in Eindhoven and joined the resistance with his wife Anneke (1916-2012), among other things to help people in hiding. Was caught during a control in the natural swimming pool "De ijzeren man".
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| Hövel tot Westerflier,
van Joseph | ∗ 1919-01-12 Maastricht † 1945-01-04 Neuengamme | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Maastricht - ontbering This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel.- |
| Hulst,
van Joseph | ∗ 1915-08-27 Maastricht † 1944-09-05 kamp Vught | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Maastricht - gefusilleerd This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel.- |
| Hüskens,
Jacob H. | ∗ 1906-08-06 Rheindahlen † 1944-11-04 KZ Solingen | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Haelen - L.O. - Born in Rheindahlen near Mönchen-Gladbach (D). Member of the LO in Horn. Driver. Arrested on 08 October 1944 during a church raid (The Great Commandment). From 1991-2007 Horn belonged to Haelen.
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| Hustinx,
Louis | ∗ 1908-04-16 Bunde † 1944-02-06 Rheinbach | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Maastricht - Louis Evrard Eugene Hustinx was the Belgian consul in Maastricht. His sister Marie Houtappel-Hustinx was married to the wine merchant Edmond Houtappel, who ran the family business Fa. Widow R. W. Hustinx, coffee roasting and wholesale in colonial goods. He died in the prison of Rheinbach, because he preferred death to giving up the secrets that had been entrusted to him. This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel.- |
| Huurman,
Tijmen | ∗ 1891-02-14 Groningen † 1942-05-11 Oranienburg | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Maastricht - gefusilleerd This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel.- |
| Jacobs,
Karel Père Hugues /Pater Hugo | ∗ 1900-11-17 Antwerpen † 1943-10-09 Bunnik (Utrecht) | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Belgium - early resistance - press - Group Erkens - priest - He was not a resistance fighter in the Dutch province of Limburg, but was in close contact with them and therefore also appears on this list. His resistance activity began by helping escaped French prisoners of war to continue their escape. He was a Cistercian monk in the Abbey of Val-Dieu and was ordained priest on October 21, 1932. He then taught church history at Val-Dieu, was curator of the abbey museum and novice master. He and his confrere Stephanus Muhren, whom he trained, were active in the Clarence intelligence network (dr. Jules Goffin from Fouron-le-Comte) and active in the by Clarence people so called group Holland (of Nic. Erkens, at the time in hiding wirh his sisters in Sittard). Val-Dieu and the Fouron villages are located in the middle of the Liège-Maastricht-Aachen tri-border area and were therefore predestined to serve as hubs for escape networks. The two monks hid fugitives in the monastery and on the surrounding farms and watched the German transport activity on the rail lines of the border area. They were assisted by their German abbot, Alberich Steiger, who, among other things, banqueted with high German officers. Together with Fr. Hugo and Pol Nolens, vicar at Charneux, a clandestine newspaper reproduced with a spirit duplicator at Charneux was distributed, denouncing the misdeeds of National Socialism in the three national languages (La Tribune Libre in French, Het Vrije Woord in Dutch, and Das Freie Wort in German). Arrested on March 19, 1943, the day after Fr. Stephen was arrested by the Geheime Feldpolizei (Secret Field Police) as a result of the Hannibal game, Fr. Hugo Jacobs was subjected to harsh interrogations in Liège in an attempt (unsuccessfully) to extract from him a confession about the abbot’s complicity or involvement. On August 11, 1943, he and ten others were sentenced to death by a court-martial in Utrecht for espionage and favoring the enemy. They were shot in Fort Rijnauwen near Utrecht on October 9, 1943. On the way to the execution site, he and his confrere wore their white Cistercian monk’s robes and loudly sang a religious hymn. His body was cremated, and the ashes were later buried in the abbey cemetery. A memorial plaque commemorates him in Fort Rijnauwen and in the abbey church of Val-Dieu.
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| Jaeken,
Pieter | ∗ 1917-09-15 Neeroeteren † 1944-09-12 Heer | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Heer - Belgium - Secret Army (B) -
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| Jansen,
Willem Hendrik Marie Wim | ∗ 1922-05-13 Vierlingsbeek † 1945-02-25 Buchenwald | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - L.O. - Student - person in hiding - The outskirts of Limburg - Vierlingsbeek At the age of 21, district leader of the LO in Vierlingsbeek after his predecessor Gerard Smals had to go into hiding in Nijmegen in January 1944. Thanks to his organizational skills, he managed to provide the more than 1,000 people in hiding with the necessary coupons and permits every month. In April 1944, Wim also had to go into hiding, in Cuijk-Vianen. The Vierlingsbeek district included the sub-districts of Bergen, Gennep, Mook, Vierlingsbeek, Boxmeer and Cuijk. The districts of Vierlingsbeek, Nijmegen, and Maas and Waal were outside the province of Limburg, but were still part of the LO province of Limburg. He fell into German hands at the raid of Weert on June 21, 1944. Source: Dorpsraad Vierlingsbeek – “Pap, wat zijn dat voor doden”. Booklet from june 2000. This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel.03-03 |
| Janssens,
Lambertus Joseph | ∗ 1907-12-13 Roermond † 1944-12-26 Elmpt (D) | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Roermond - person in hiding - Factory worker. Belonged to the 14 Roermonders murdered during Christmas 1944, who were shot just across the German border, in order to expel their male townmates between the ages of 16 and 60. Detailed information on this website: The Tears of Roermond. This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel.04-15 |
| Jong,
de Cornelis Cees/Cor | ∗ 1905-03-31 Rotterdam † 1944-06-06 Bloemendaal | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Nijmegen - L.O. - press - The outskirts of Limburg - Cees de Jong was a sales representative of the Leder- en Drijfriemenfabriek Regouin in Cuijk. From 1942 he collected data on German military objects for Captain C. Hoogerland. He also distributed the underground newspaper Vrij Nederland. In addition, he provided (from July 1943 within the framework of the L.O.) shelter, ration cards, and food to people in hiding. He was also a member of a resistance group in which in particular a number of Nijmegen police officers were active. The group carried out an attack on the traitor Ederveen on September 24 at the Daalseweg, because he knew too much. However, Ederveen managed to escape and to alert the Germans. As a result, on September 27, 1943, dozens of people were arrested, and on June 6, 1944, the five most important members of this resistance group were shot in the dunes near Overveen. Cees de Jong was buried in the cemetery of honor of Bloemendaal (see link below, with biography).
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| Jongen,
Willem | ∗ 1900-01-14 † 1944-12-26 Elmpt (D) | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Roermond - person in hiding - Belonged to the 14 Roermonders murdered during Christmas 1944, who were shot just across the German border, in order to expel their male townmates between the ages of 16 and 60. Detailed information on this website: The Tears of Roermond. This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel.04-16 |
| Kammeraat,
Hendrik | ∗ 1904-04-26 Woubrugge † 1944-12-19 Neuengamme | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Elst - L.O. - municipality - The outskirts of Limburg - Municipal secretary of Elst. Was one of the pioneers of LO-Elst, he set up with Kees Peters, Gerrit Erdkamp, Hermanus B. A. Geerlings, Petrus P. van Hal, Elst en Wouter Hoogakker a support group for those in hiding, which consisted mainly of these municipal officials. Read more about the end of this group in the story about Elst.
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| Keesman,
Hendrik | ∗ 1895-10-30 Nieuwer-Amstel † 1943-01-15 Neuengamme | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Brunssum - CPN - Machine fitter. On a sheet (picture 45) in ARCH00347.148, the CPN archive of their fallen comrades in Limburg, he is referred to as coming from Brunsum. On it, a photo of him is requested by the Memorial Book Department (see link below).
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| Knops,
Hubert Maria | ∗ 1888-08-05 Heerlen † 1944-04-23 Echt | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Echt - L.O. - priest - Parish priest of Koningsbosch, municipality of Echt. Arrested 29 February 1944 for helping people in hiding.
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| Knottenbelt,
Franciscus Hendrikus Gerhardus Maria Frans | ∗ 1921-08-04 Enschede † 1944-07-09 Boven-Leeuwen | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - L.O. - K.P. - The outskirts of Limburg - Deputy manager [2] Frans Knottenbelt was killed in a firefight with landwachters (translated: rural guards, an auxiliary police composed of Dutch fascists) [4] near Leeuwen [1] on the night of July 8-9, 1944. In a letter to the editor of the Veluwsch Dagblad, resistance comrades reported that Van Schaik and Knottenbelt fell for the Fatherland at 1:15 am. He belonged to the LO and KP of the Maas en Waal district. On wo2slachtoffers.nl there is this story about these two friends [3]: On the night of July 8-9, 1944, resistance men from Wamel disguised as policemen went to Boven-Leeuwen to attack a controller of the food supply authority. He was suspected of embezzling flour for his own use. On the way, however, the group of resistance fighters encountered a patrol of the Landwacht, which immediately opened fire. Van Schaik, who was armed only with a dagger, and Frans Knottenbelt were fatally shot.
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| Kranen, ,
Theodorus Jacobus Theo | ∗ 1924-08-28 Helden † 1946-11-29 Venray | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Venray - person in hiding - Theo Kranen was one of the victims of the great raid on Wednesday, May 17, 1944 in Helden. Do you know more? Write us! This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel.04-19 |
| Kroes,
Willem | ∗ 1896-01-16 Amersfoort † 1942-05-11 Oranienburg | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Maastricht - gefusilleerd This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel.- |
| Kuerten,
Antonius Johannes Joop | ∗ 1919-06-29 Nijmegen † 1944-07-21 Vught | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Nijmegen - K.P. - The outskirts of Limburg - Antonius Johannes Kürten was a machine fitter [4]. Arrested on February 21, 1945 in Hoorn by the Landwacht (auxiliar police consisting of Dutch nazis) during a food transport. [1] We read about Joop Kuerten on Oorlogsdoden Nijmegen 1940 - 1945 [2] Although Kuerten, son of Josephus Dominicus Kuerten and Wilhelmina Antonetta Kuerten-Bongers, lived in Eindhoven and worked as a fitter, he became a member of the Knokploeg-Nijmegen in his birthplace. He was active for the resistance in Nijmegen, Maas and Waal, Eindhoven and in trains, where he stole briefcases of the occupiers. He participated in the liquidation of S.D. people (Sicherheitsdienst or Sicherheitspolizei) and the liberation of resistance fighters from prisons. During a train check in July 1944, he was caught and taken to Vught concentration camp, where he was executed without trial on July 21, probably in retaliation for attempts on German soldiers in Nijmegen. See also concentration camp Vught, called KZ Herzogenbusch by the Germans [3].
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| Kuntz,
Petrus | ∗ 1918-02-01 Zaandam † 1942-05-11 Oranienburg | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Maastricht - gefusilleerd This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel.- |
| Laak,
van der Nicolaas Antonius | ∗ 1908-08-10 Soerabaja † 1945-02-06 Sittard | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Sittard - Business manager / Member resistance Do you know more? Write us!
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| Langers,
Guillaume J. | ∗ 1923-03-29 Maaseik (B) † 1944-09-12 Heer | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Heer - Belgium - Secret Army (B) -
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| Langers,
Jack Hubert Mathijs /Jaak | ∗ 1909-02-03 Maaseik † 1944-09-14 Gangelt (D) | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Belgium - Secret Army (B) - He lived in Rotem, Belgian Limburg. Originally buried in a mass grave in Gangelt (D). Last resting place: Unknown (Source: Memorial for seven executed Belgian resistance fighters, bel-memorial.be)
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| Lansdorp,
Loek Charles v.d. Heuvel | ∗ 1921-07-15 Semarang † 1944-09-05 Arnhem | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - press - Student - The outskirts of Limburg - RVV - Louis Albert (Loek) Lansdorp kwam vanuit Tilburg, waar hij aan de Economische Hogeschool had gestudeerd, bij RVV-groep Deurne terecht, vermoedelijk omdat hij de loyaliteitsverklaring niet wilde tekenen en dus moest onderduiken. De RVV-groep Deurne werd geleid door Cor Noordermeer en had zijn basis in de boerderij De Zwarte Plak in America van het echtpaar Jacob & Johanna Poels-Emonts, ook wel het pilotencentrum De Zwarte Plak genoemd.[1] Hij pleegde met de RVV op 3 september 1944 een overval op de gevangenis in Putten om de gevangen genomen rector van het Alkmaarse gymnasium Dr. Hemelrijk te bevrijden maar werd daarbij gearresteerd [1][2] en twee dagen later gefusilleerd Op het Monument Verzetsstrijders America [3] staat te lezen Ook zij gaven hun leven |
| Lemmens,
Jan | ∗ 1912-03-28 Limmel † 1945-03-25 Nordhausen | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Maastricht - ontbering This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel.- |
| Lenders,
Mathieu J. | ∗ 1925-02-20 Maaseik (B) † 1944-09-12 Heer | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Heer - Belgium - Secret Army (B) -
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| Lenis,
Willem | ∗ 1923-12-14 Leeuwarden † 1944-09-15 Schwarmstedt /Swarmstedt | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Helden - person in hiding - Willem Lenis was a tailor and one of the victims of the big raid of Wednesday 17 May 1944 in Helden, his last residence. Deceased Schwarmstedt 32 km southwest of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, perhaps in the reserve hospital there.
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| Leroy,
Alfons | ∗ 1913-06-02 Massemen (B) † 1944-09-12 Heer | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Heer - Belgium - Secret Army (B) -
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| Linders,
Johannes Antonius Pater Sebaldus | ∗ 1907-06-15 Mook † 1944-08-11 Kamp Vught | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - L.O. - priest - person in hiding - The outskirts of Limburg - Jan Linders was born in Mook, entered the Franciscan order under the name Sebaldus and was ordained priest in 1933. During the war he lived in the monastery in Alverna [1] (Wijchen) and was vicar there. He helped Jewish children and Jewish adults, as well as others in hiding, to find shelter and protection. He hid weapons and ammunition for the resistance and resisted himself, including with his cousin Jacques E. Janssen, guiding Allied pilots from Roermond to Belgium. He was a board member of the Thalia theater association in Nijmegen, from where people were recruited for the resistance. Probably he was not careful enough and was therefore betrayed. Cammaert writes: "From a priest in Wijchen he (the traitor De Heus [14]) learned about the resistance work of J.E. Janssen from Roermond, branch manager of Edah, a chain of stores for colonial goods. Knowing Roermond well, he visited Janssen at the end of May. The shopkeeper did not reveal anything because the priest from Wijchen did not trust De Heus and had warned Janssen in the meantime.[2] In March 1944, he was finally forced to go into hiding himself, first in Nijmegen and then in Bussum, but was nevertheless arrested on June 7, 1944, together with his cousin Jacques. On August 11, 1944, he was executed in Kamp Vught along with 32 others, including his cousin Jacques and Herman Jeurissen (*Huissen 3.11.1888 - †11.8.1944) from Alverna. The Provincial of the Dutch Franciscans, Rob Hoogenboom, received the "Righteous Among the Nations" award from Yad Vashem from the hands of Israeli Ambassador Haim Divon on September 9 at the National Monument in Kamp Vught. [3] On this occasion, Wim Linders spoke about his memories of Father Sebald Linders.[4] In Alverna (Wijchen) a street is named after him.[5]
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| Linssen,
Henricus Ignatius | ∗ 1888-07-17 Nijmegen † 1944-07-21 Leusden | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Nijmegen - municipality - press - The outskirts of Limburg - Henricus Ignatius Linssen worked in the distribution office of Nijmegen. He was married to Joanna Maria Elisabeth Teunissen and father of three children. He provided those in hiding with distribution documents ( stamps and cards) and distributed forbidden newspapers. He belonged to the Vrij Nederland group of Nijmegen. On June 29, 1944, he was arrested and transported to the Amersfoort concentration camp via the Arnhem prison. On July 21, 1944, he was executed along with other Nijmegen citizens in Leusden in retaliation for attacks on German soldiers in Nijmegen. He had to dig his own grave on the Heath of Leusden. [1] Linssen was buried after the war until the autumn of 1969 in the cemetery on the Daalseweg (29-1-8) and since then in the field of honor of the cemetery Vredehof [2] in Nijmegen. The daily De Gelderlander of May 11, 1945 contains an obituary of Henricus Linsen (in the other sources Linssen is spelled with 2 s), residing in Nijmegen, Tooropstraat 195, who "fell as a victim for Nijmegen" in the Amersfoort concentration camp on July 22, 1944. In the same obituary the names of Ernest George van Geuns, Christiaan Canisius Toussaint and J. Joseph Marius Rodriguez are mentioned [4]. He is listed on the memorial in the schoolyard of Canisius College, where he was a student. [5]
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| Loon,
van Theodorus | ∗ 1920-02-02 Maastricht † 0000-00-00 Hengelo | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Maastricht - BS gesneuveld This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel.- |
| Lopes de Leao,
Jacob | ∗ 1901-10-21 Amsterdam † 1942-05-11 Oranienburg | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Maastricht - gefusilleerd This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel.- |
| Luske,
Jacques Joseph Carlos Marie Jacques | ∗ 1901-08-31 Baarn † 1944-12-27 Hamburg-Neuengamme | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - L.O. - mayor - The outskirts of Limburg - Mayor and member of LO-Bergharen [1], which was part of the LO-District Maas en Waal. Arrested on March 6, 1944, because captured people in hiding had talked after severe torture. Read the following story, which can be found in the same terms at the Jan van Gelderstichting [2] and the oorlogsgravenstichting.nl [5]: He did not hesitate to protest against the highest German authorities in our country when demobilized Dutch soldiers were imprisoned and young men sent to Germany for forced labor in 1943. He actively supported people who wanted to go into hiding in this community, which was going to be his undoing. When several people in hiding were caught in a raid, three of them admitted, after severe torture by the Germans, that Mayor Luske had mediated in their shelter. He was arrested on March 6, 1944, and arrived in Neuengamme [3] in Germany via Arnhem, Amersfoort, and Vught. In 1951 his remains were transferred to the Heilig Landstichting cemetery in Berg en Dal [4]. |
| Maassen,
Armand | ∗ 1920-01-03 Maastricht † 1943-02-10 Leusden | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Maastricht -
Armand Maassen zat in het Delfts studentenverzet; in 1941 Engelandvaarder,
17-3-1942 gearresteerd op het strand van Katwijk en 10-2-1943 overleden in kamp Amersfoort
begr. Maastricht
Armand Maassenstraat This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel.- |
| Marcusse,
Albertus Hendrikus Albert | ∗ 1903-11-02 Batenburg † 1944-06-06 Overveen | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Nijmegen - police - The outskirts of Limburg - Albert Marcusse was married to Johannea Stevens and together they had seven children. He was chief inspector (hoofdinspecteur) of police and during the Second World War, he was a member of a resistance group in Nijmegen in which in particular a number of police officers were active. The group carried out an attack on the traitor Ederveen on the Daalseweg on September 24, because he knew too much. However, Ederveen managed to escape and to alert the Germans. As a result, dozens of people were arrested on September 27, and on June 6, 1944, the five most important members of this resistance group were executed in the dunes near Overveen.
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| Martens,
Johannes Theodorus Antonius Jopie | ∗ 1924-10-19 Asten † 1945-05-06 Kdo. Sandbostel, Neuengamme | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - L.O. - municipality - The outskirts of Limburg -
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| Medenbach Rooy,
Johan | ∗ 1906-06-14 Djokjakarta † 1942-05-11 Oranienburg | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Maastricht - gefusilleerd This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel.- |
| Meerten,
Jean Hubert Antoine Jac. | ∗ 1922-11-01 Heppeneert (Maaseik) † 1944-09-14 Gangelt (D) | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Belgium - Secret Army (B) - He lived in Heppeneert (Maaseik), Belgian Limburg. Originally buried in a mass grave in Gangelt (D). Last resting place: Unknown (Source: Memorial for seven executed Belgian resistance fighters, bel-memorial.be)
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| Meijer,
Johan | ∗ 1919-09-05 Billiton † 1942-05-11 Oranienburg | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Maastricht - gefusilleerd This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel.- |
| Meiler,
Max Piet van Kempen, oom Willem | ∗ 1893-06-12 Nijmegen † 1945-03-12 Neuengamme | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Venlo - L.O. - Max Meiler was elektrotechnicus, maar koopman van beroep. Hij was in Venlo contactman van districtsleider Ambrosius [1] Hij woonde eind februari 1941 op de Keizersgracht in Amsterdam en hoorde op een avond laat dat in een aangrenzend bankgebouw het bij de bank inwonende gezin van de conciërge het Wilhelmus zingt. De volgende dag gaat hij erheen met de vraag of zij zo nu en dan joodse mensen willen laten overnachten die hij vanuit Noord-Holland benoorden het IJ helpt te ontkomen naar Limburg. Bij een routinecontrole in de trein vallen Meiler’s vervalste papieren op. Hij wordt naar Westerbork afgevoerd. (Herinneringen van de dochter van de conciërge. [2]) Gearresteerd in mei 1944. Hij was afkomstig uit Nijmegen en had blijkbaar goede banden met Limburg.
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| Merlijn,
Pieter L. Leij | ∗ 1920-12-31 Ede † 1945-03-12 Amsterdam | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Nijmegen - K.P. - The outskirts of Limburg - Pieter was a machine fitter [6] and he was a member of the Knokploeg (combat group) in Nijmegen. He participated in raids on distribution offices, in attempts to liberate imprisoned resistance fighters, etc. After the liberation of Nijmegen, he shifted his operational focus to the still occupied western part of the country [1]. Arrested on February 21, 1945 in Hoorn by members of the Landwacht (translated: rural guards, an auxiliary police composed of Dutch fascists) [5], during a food transport [1][2]. The description of the monument "De Gevallen Hoornblazer" [3] in Amsterdam states the following: It is a tribute to the 30 political prisoners who were executed here on March 12, 1945, in retaliation by the occupying forces. On December 31, 2014, his ashes were scattered at the cemetery Mausoleum op de Paasberg in Ede. [4]
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| Meulenberg,
Edmundus Johannes Eddy | ∗ 1919-01-26 Nijmegen † 1945-07-04 Nijmegen | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - dutch soldier - early resistance - L.O. - K.P. - The outskirts of Limburg - Eddy Meulenberg was a conscript sergeant at the time of the surrender of the Dutch Army in May 1940. He was a member of the Nijmegen Knokploeg (combat group), together with his friends Jules Moormann, George Muskens and Hens Hekking, among others. Since Eddy had to go back into war captivity in 1943 (see below), this combat group existed before that, so we count it as part of the early resistance. In 1943, the Dutch soldiers had to return to captivity. Partly because the Germans needed manpower for their industry, where a large number of the men were missing. In the meantime, many Dutch soldiers had become involved in the resistance. Some went into hiding, others feared reprisals against their families and answered the call. Meulenberg, too, had to report at the Friesland barracks in Assen on June 10. That same day they left with a transport of 520 men. They arrived at Stammlager XI-a Altengrabow two days later. [1] On June 12, 1943, he was registered in Stalag XI-a Altengrabow under POW number 107104. Several weeks followed in Altengrabow, during which the NCOs were pressured in all possible ways to work for the Germans. They were given very little and very poor food, were forced to drill and sport constantly, were housed in very poor conditions in drafty, cold stables, and received no mail or packages. He too returned sick to the Netherlands and died of this illness in Nijmegen on July 4, 1945. He is buried in the Vredehof cemetery in Nijmegen. [3]
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| Miché,
Bernard | ∗ 1887-07-30 Utrecht † 1942-05-11 Oranienburg | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Maastricht - gefusilleerd This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel.- |
| Michels,
Arnold | ∗ 1907-12-01 Overasselt † 1942-05-11 Oranienburg | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Maastricht - gefusilleerd This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel.- |
| Mooren,
Antonius Lodewijk Joseph Toon | ∗ 1923-03-19 Vierlingsbeek † 1945-03-05 Mauthausen | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - L.O. - K.P. - person in hiding - The outskirts of Limburg - “LO-Vierlingsbeek. Also: KP (Commando group). Arrested on 5.12.44 in Venlo, during a raid on the address where he was in hiding." (Het grote gebod, p. 327) A detailed story about Toon on oorlogsgravenstichting.nl, source: Dorpsraad Vierlingsbeek: "Papa, was sind das für Tote". Brochure dated June 2000. see link. "On May 12, 1944, pilot helper A.L.J. Mooren from Vierlingsbeek was arrested at the Dael family home in Venlo. Several unsuccessful attempts were made to free him. A week later, the brothers Leo and Jan Dael were also arrested. Leo Dael was sent via Maastricht and Vught to Mauthausen, where he died on March 1, 1945; his brother and A. Mooren died in the same camp on March 9 and 5, 1945, respectively" (Cammaert VIb, p. 583).
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| Moormann,
Julius Ferdinand Jules | ∗ 1924-04-12 Nijmegen † 1944-05-17 ?? | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Nijmegen - K.P. - Student - The outskirts of Limburg - During a failed liquidation attempt on April 14, 1944, Julius Ferdinand Moormann was arrested and George Muskens killed. [1] Oorlogsgravenstichting.nl writes [4]: Student Moormann, son of high school director Moormann, was a member of the Knokploeg-Nijmegen. He was involved in three attempts on the chief of the political police in Nijmegen, Verstappen, which all failed. On April 10, 1944, he and George Muskens attempted to obtain German army insignia. The attempt failed. Muskens was shot. Moormann was arrested. His father and mother, as well as his sister Riet, were also arrested and imprisoned in the Vught camp. In Arnhem, Jules was sentenced to death on May 15, 1944, because he and George Muskens had attempted to "rob and murder a ethnic German (Reichsdeutscher) police chief inspector" in Nijmegen, according to Rauter in De Standaard on May 19, 1944. After torture, he was executed on May 17. May 1944 in Amsterdam, according to a letter from the president of the police district court martial in Arnhem-Velp (the story that he would have been executed on May 15 at Fort De Bilt in Utrecht is therefore probably based on an error). His friends Henri Hekking and Eddy Meulenberg were also involved in the resistance work. Hekking was killed, Meulenberg died shortly after the liberation of the whole country. Moormann’s parents and sister were released after his execution. Julius is in the Roll of Honour 1940-1945 of the Dutch Parliament [2]
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| Muhren,
Piet Père Étienne /Pater Stephanus | ∗ 1908-09-14 Bergen-op-Zoom † 1943-10-09 Bunnik (Utrecht) | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Belgium - early resistance - press - Group Erkens - priest - Petrus („Piet“) Johannes Cornelis Muhren was not a resistance fighter in the Dutch province of Limburg, but was in close contact with them and therefore also appears on this list. His German ancestors still wrote "Mühren", but in Dutch it is pronounced the same way.He entered the novitiate of the Dutch Cistercian Abbey of Mariënkroon in 1929 as Brother Canisius, but in 1933 he moved to the short-staffed Abbey of Val-Dieu in Aubel, Belgium, just over the border of Dutch South Limburg. There he received the monastic name Stephen (French: Étienne). He was ordained a priest in Val-Dieu on July 5, 1936. He was cantor for the next years and taught ecclesiastical law, dogmatics and philosophy at the internal teaching institution. When the Wehrmacht invaded in 1940, he initially fled to the west, distrusting his German abbot, but then returned and joined the Resistance with his confrere Hugo Jacobs. Through the general practitioner Jules Goffin, they came into contact with the intelligence and resistance network Clarence and the Erkens group. He observed the transports of the German army on the railroad lines in the area on extended bicycle tours and explained these tours with visits to women in need of pastoral help, which earned him the nickname Père Amoureux. Val-Dieu and Voeren are located in the middle of the Liège-Maastricht-Aachen three-country triangle and were therefore virtually predestined as a hub for escape networks. Apart from monitoring German railroad activity, the two monks also hid fugitives in the monastery and on the surrounding farms of the border area. They were sustained discreetely by their German abbot Alberich Steiger, who, among other things, dined with high German officers. He and his confrere, together with Pol Nolens, vicar at Charneux, edited an illegal newspaper, reproduced with a spirit duplicator at Charneux, denouncing the misdeeds of National Socialism in the three Belgian languages (La Tribune Libre in French, Het Vrije Woord in Dutch, and Das Freie Wort in German). On March 18, 1943, one day before Fr. Hugo, he was arrested by the Geheime Feldpolizei (Secret Police of the German army) as a result of the Hannibal Game. On August 11, 1943, he and ten others were sentenced to death by a court-martial in Utrecht for espionage and favoring the enemy. They were shot at Fort Rijnauwen near Utrecht (Netherlands) on October 9, 1943. On the way to the execution site, he and his confrere wore their white Cistercian monk’s robes and loudly sang a religious hymn. His body was cremated, and the ashes were later buried in the Val-Dieu monastery cemetery. A memorial plaque commemorates him in Fort Rijnauwen and in the abbey church of Val-Dieu.
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| Mulkens,
Joseph | ∗ 1915-07-23 Amby † 1941-09-25 Maastricht | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Maastricht - neergestoken This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel.- |
| Muller,
Jean Maurice | ∗ 1920-02-06 Weltevreden (Ned.Ind † 1944-07-21 Kamp Vught | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Nijmegen - municipality - press - The outskirts of Limburg - As an official of the distribution office in Nijmegen, he passed on ration cards to people in hiding and he distributed banned newspapers. He belonged to the Vrij Nederland group of Nijmegen and was arrested on June 20, 1944 [4], possibly as a result of betrayal [1.1]. On July 21, 1944, he was executed in the Vught concentration camp, [1.1] probably in part in retaliation for attacks on German soldiers in Nijmegen. [2] He is in the Roll of Honour 1940-1945 of the Dutch Parliament [3]
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| Musch,
Jaap | ∗ 1913-03-08 Amsterdam † 1944-09-07 Ommen | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Heerlen - Brunssum - NV - person in hiding - Jaap and Gerard Musch did their resistance work on the basis of their Christian beliefs. “The brothers Jaap and Gerard Musch from Amsterdam started their rescue work around July 1942 when the first Jews were deported. … In the summer of 1942, J. Musch moved to South Limburg to find addresses for Jewish children. He also found a job as a chemical analyst with the State Mines. Musch settled in Heerlen, where he sought contact with Reverend G.J. Pontier.” (Cammaert V, IV.2.2. De N.V.) Jaap had to pay for that with death, after he and a number of children went in hiding in Nijverdal and were discovered by accident. Again, the children present were able to escape.
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| Muskens,
George Arts | ∗ 1923-07-02 Maastricht † 1944-04-14 Arnhem | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Nijmegen - K.P. - Student - The outskirts of Limburg - Trainee sculptor. He was a member of the Nijmegen Knokploeg (armed unit) . [1][3] In a failed liquidation attempt on 14/04/1944, Muskens was killed and Moormann was arrested. Quote oorlogsgravenstichting.nl [7]: Gregorius Johannes Arnoldus Maria Muskens was the son of physician Dr. Arnold Lodewijk Marie Muskens (∗ Nijmegen December 31, 1878 – † 6 September 1964) and Geertruida Anna Elisabeth Maria van der Waarden. Father Muskens had previously been married to Emma Jeanne Regout of Maastricht, but she died in Heerlen in August 1918. Gregorius trained as a sculptor and was a very active member of the Knokploeg-Nijmegen. He searched for traitors within the resistance. On April 10, 1944, he was seriously wounded in a raid with student Julius Moormann on German soldiers and a German police chief inspector on the Nebo hill. He was accused of trying to rob and kill the chief inspector. The latter succeeded in shooting Muskens down. Four days later Muskens died in prison in Arnhem. Muskens was buried in the cemetery on the Daalseweg (24-6-4) until the fall of 1969, then in the field of honor of the Vredehof cemetery [5]. The student Julius Moormann was sentenced to death by the Police District Court Martial in Arnhem in May 1944. He was executed on May 17, 1944. See also the brief biography on WO2Slachtoffers.nl [4].
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| Muskens,
Gregorius | ∗ 1923-07-02 Maastricht † 1944-04-14 Arnhem | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Maastricht - George Muskens gewond, overval This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel.- |
| Noordermeer,
Cornelis Klaas Cor | ∗ 1918-04-12 Lochem † 1944-08-11 kamp Vught | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - police - The outskirts of Limburg - RVV - The policeman Cor Noordermeer was the local leader of the Raad van Verzet (RVV, Resistance Council) in Deurne. The RVV was a loose association of scattered, independent resistance groups that, in the absence of national coordination, had to act completely independently. Working from their base at De Zwarte Plak in the Limburg village of America, members of the group aided downed Allied pilots and those in hiding. Together with the local radio service, information was gathered and exchanged. On May 13, 1944, through the intercession of their colleague José Peerbooms, ‘Don José’, Cor and Nico van Oosterhout were on their way to a meeting of the RVV in Utrecht. They did not return. Upon arrival at the Utrecht train station, both were immediately arrested by the Germans and taken to the Scheveningen prison, the ‘Oranjehotel’, for interrogation. There they were interrogated twice and tortured for 24 hours. Finally, they were deported to the Vught concentration camp, where they were shot at the execution site on August 11, 1944. The resistance held José Peerbooms (who had been under suspicion before) responsible for the arrest and liquidated him on July 13, 1944. Source: oorlogsgravenstichting.nl
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| Oolbekkink,
Herman | ∗ 1911-09-27 Deventer, † 1944-06-06 Overveen | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Nijmegen - police - The outskirts of Limburg - During the Second World War, detective Oolbekkink was a member of a resistance group in Nijmegen in which in particular a number of police officers were active. The group carried out an attack on the traitor Ederveen on the Daalseweg on September 24, because he knew too much. However, Ederveen managed to escape and to alert the Germans. As a result, dozens of people were arrested on September 27, and on June 6, 1944, the five most important members of this resistance group were executed in the dunes near Overveen. More about this in the introductory text about Nijmegen. Herman Oolbekkink is buried with corps honors on the Vredehof field of honor.
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| Oost-Europeaan,
? | ∗ 0000-00-00 ? † 1944-09-12 Heer | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Heer - Belgium - Secret Army (B) - He is usually called the unknown Russian, but even that is not certain, in fact it is only known, that he was from Eastern Europe. He tried to escape and was shot while doing so. And why was he among that group of the Secret Army, which was to be shot here? It is certain that many Soviet prisoners of war worked in the coal mines around Genk. Probably he was one of them and joined the secret army. Do you know more? Write us! Его обычно называют неизвестным русским, но даже это не точно, на самом деле известно только, что он был из Восточной Европы. Он пытался бежать и был при этом расстрелян. А почему он был среди той группы Тайной армии, которая должна была быть расстреляна здесь? Наверняка многие советские военнопленные работали в угольных шахтах в окрестностях Генка. Возможно, он был одним из них и присоединился к тайной армии. Если у вас есть больше информации об этом человеке, пожалуйста, напишите мне! This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel.- |
| Oosterhout,
van Nicolaas Cornelis Nico | ∗ 1918-02-28 Dordrecht † 1944-08-11 Kamp Vught | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - municipality - The outskirts of Limburg - RVV - Customs officer. Son of the bargeman Nicolaas van Oosterhout and Cornelia Antonia Aartsen. At the age of 14 he started working as a helper in a bicycle repair shop, but when he realized that he would not get far without a degree, he went back to school around 1934. In 1937 he volunteered for military service and was assigned to a motorcycle company during the May Days of 1940. After the surrender of the Netherlands, he worked at the tax office in Rijsbergen. When the German authorities announced in 1943 that all former Dutch soldiers had to report to be taken prisoner of war again, Nico went into hiding. However, he was discovered and taken to the Amersfoort concentration camp. He managed to escape from there and go into hiding again, first in Dordrecht and then in Schaijk. Nico then joined the Raad van Verzet (RVV, Resistance Council) in Deurne under the leadership of policeman Cor Noordermeer. The RVV was a loose association of scattered, independent resistance groups that, in the absence of national coordination, had to act completely independently. Working from their base at De Zwarte Plak in the Limburg village of America, members of the group aided downed Allied pilots and those in hiding. Together with the local radio service, information was gathered and exchanged. On May 13, 1944, through the intercession of their colleague José Peerbooms, ‘Don José’, Nico and Cor were on their way to a meeting of the RVV in Utrecht. They did not return. Upon arrival at the Utrecht train station, both were immediately arrested by the Germans and taken to the Scheveningen prison, the ‘Oranjehotel’, for interrogation. There Nico and Cor were interrogated twice and tortured for 24 hours. Finally, they were deported to the Vught concentration camp, where they were shot at the execution site on August 11, 1944. Nico was 26 years old. The resistance held José Peerbooms (who had been under suspicion before) responsible for the arrest and liquidated him on July 13, 1944. Source: oorlogsgravenstichting.nl
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| Oppen,
van Ferdinand | ∗ 1913-03-04 Maastricht † 1945-02-02 Sachsenhausen | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Maastricht - gefusilleerd This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel.- |
| Pérée,
Theo | ∗ 1913-10-13 Maastricht † 1945-01-04 Neuengamme | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Maastricht - In the genealogy Henket Henquet [1] we read: Theo Pérée from Maastricht was a factory worker/ laborer in a noodle factory and domiciled Achter de Molens 6 in Maastricht. Theo died in Neuengamme concentration camp, Hausdeich 60, Hamburg, at 6:00 a.m. on January 4, 1945, of enterocolitus (inflammation of the intestines). He was buried in Hamburg. [2]
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| Peters,
Cornelis Gijsbertus Kees | ∗ 1915-04-16 Elst † 1945-03-02 Mauthausen | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Elst - L.O. - municipality - The outskirts of Limburg - Was one of the pioneers of LO-Elst, he set up with Hendrik Kammeraat, Gerrit Erdkamp, Hermanus B. A. Geerlings, Petrus P. van Hal, Elst and Wouter Hoogakker a support group for those in hiding, which consisted mainly of these municipal officials. Arrested on december 17, 1943. Read more about the end of this group in the story about Elst. |
| Pijnacker Hordijk,
Anna | ∗ 1881-06-11 Maastricht † 1944-01-24 Ravensbruck | ♀ - This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Maastricht - Anna Geertruida Adelheid was dochter van ds. Arij Pijnacker Hordijk en Alida Margaretha Theodora de Ridder. Zij was getrouwd met Matthias Adriaan Snoeck. Zus van ds. Adriaan Nicolaas Pijnacker Hordijk en ds. Herbert Jacobus Pijnacker Hordijk. Dus een echte theologenfamilie.(https://www.geni.com/people/Anna-Geertruida-Adelheid-Pijnacker-Hordijk/6000000039669585373) Zij verleende hulp aan Britse piloten van neergestorte vliegtuigen. Op 10 april 1942 werd zij gearresteerd. Waarschijnlijk is zij een van de eerste Nederlandse vrouwen, die opgepakt werden wegens hulp aan geallieerde piloten. Tot ongeveer 20 juni 1942 zat zij opgesloten in het Oranjehotel te Scheveningen. Via Utrecht en Vught is zij naar het beruchte Duitse concentratiekamp voor vrouwen KZ Ravensbrück gedeporteerd, waar zij op 25 januari 1944 omkwam door ondervoeding. Na haar zou de Nijmeegse verzetsvrouw Johanna Brendel-Jansen ook nog in KZ Ravensbrück omkomen in november 1944. Zes andere opgepakte vrouwen uit Nijmegen en Groesbeek hebben Ravensbrück overleefd (https://www.oorlogsdodennijmegen.nl/persoon/snoeck-pijnacker%20hordijk/89b2fd88-476d-4a08-b3fc-ff9fce73db0d Oorlogsdoden Nijmegen 1940 - 1945)
https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lijst_van_geslachten_in_Nederland%27s_Patriciaat
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| Polski jeniec,
Frans | ∗ 0000-00-00 † 1944-12-27 Elmpt (D) | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Roermond - person in hiding - Polski jeniec = Polish prisoner of war. “Frans” was the unknown person in hiding. During WWII they were called “onderduikers” in the Netherlands, (which means divers). He belonged to the 14 Roermonders murdered during Christmas 1944, who were shot just across the German border, in order to expel their male townmates between the ages of 16 and 60. Detailed information on this website: The Tears of Roermond. Frans had probably been able to flee Germany and “got stuck” in Roermond. Do you know more? Write us! This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel.04-23 |
| Pulskens,
Jacoba Maria Tante Coba | ∗ 1884-05-26 Tilburg † 1945-03-17 Ravensbrück | ♀ - This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - L.O. - The outskirts of Limburg - Coba Pulskens hid several Jewish persons, Allied pilots and resistance fighters, was arrested and brought to Vught via Haaren. During the evacuation of Vught in early September 1944, she was transferred to the Ravensbrück women’s concentration camp, where she died in February 1945.[1] Documents about Coba Pulskens can be viewed online at the Regionaal Archief Tilburg [2]. The death of Aunt Coba [4]
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| Ravenhorst,
Lambertus C.M. Lambert | ∗ 1907-06-22 Griendtsveen (Horst) † 1945-03-10 Neuengamme | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Horst - Lambert Ravenhorst, from Horst, and Nora (Eleonora Gerardina Wilhelmina) Vork married on February 18, 1933 in Bathmen near Deventer. They had two children, Co (Jacobus Gerardus) in 1935 and Riet (Maria Christina) in 1939. From March 1938 Lambert lived with his family above the grocery store he ran as a branch manager for the Victoria chain. During 1941 he joined a resistance group. As a result of treason, he was arrested and transferred to Arnhem Prison on October 9, 1942. Via various camps, including the Amersfoort concentration camp, Lambert was finally transferred to the Neuengamme concentration camp on October 16, 1944. Here he died on March 10, 1945. [1] His picture comes from the collection of his daughter Riet Putto-Ravenhorst. She writes the following about her father:[2] I hardly knew him, as I was born shortly before the war, in 1939. We lived in Deventer and my father was a hard-working entrepreneur and member of the air-raid wardens, as was common just before the war. Many of these strong and brave men formed a resistance group at the beginning of the war. Of course, my mother was not happy about his participation and often warned him of the possible consequences. But in this case, national interests took precedence. After numerous wanderings among farmers and relatives in the Bathmen area, where we now lived with my grandparents, the whole thing became too risky and my father moved to relatives in Amsterdam. During his "work" he was picked up at a streetcar stop by SS men and deported to Arnhem, that was in 1942. From there to the concentration camp Herzogenbusch/Vught and then back to Arnhem. My mother was allowed to visit him a few times in Vught and bring him food and cigarettes. Their correspondence was frequent and that cheered him up, the privations were terrible, but of course they did not talk or write about that. From the many letters I still have, everything seemed fantastic, no worries, take heart, cheer up, I’ll be home soon! After a tip from a friend, we were given the opportunity to see our father, but on the strict condition that we were not allowed to say anything or to show that it was us. With a self-made "horse harness", I was the horse, my brother the coachman, we walked along with the prisoners’ column. Fortunately, my father walked on our side. Like children playing, we ran along for a while to show Dad that we were all right. At all four corners of the column a German guard with a rifle. How happy and sad he must have been to see us, and how hard it must have been not to show that we belonged to him. This view of us has always remained with us. Photos & scans: oorlogsbronnen.nl [3] |
| Regout,
Robert Paul | ∗ 1917-12-05 Maastricht † 1945-05-07 Utrecht | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Maastricht - dutch soldier - Robert Herman Marie Regout was part of a twelve-man arrest team from the Binnenlandse Strijdkrachten that went to arrest NSB leader Anton Adriaan Mussert (born May 11, 1894 Werkendam - executed May 7, 1946) on Monday, May 7, 1945. It turned out that he had already traveled to The Hague the previous Saturday. Near the Rosarium (in Utrecht), the team encountered German soldiers pushing a vehicle. The Germans obeyed orders to stand behind the vehicle and lay down their weapons. At some point, a shot was fired. The German soldiers who were in the area responded in large numbers. The members of the arrest team were no match for the number of Germans. Only the two youngest members of the team survived the shooting. [2]
Marjolein Bax [1] calls him Paul (a resistance name?) and writes:
Paul Regout was killed in a firefight between BS-lers and Germans in front of the Rosarium next to the Wilhelminapark.
The 27-year-old controller Paul Regout was a controller at the Nederlandsche Buurtspoorweg-Maatschappij. He was hit in the forehead and died.
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| Regout,
Robert | ∗ 1896-01-18 Maastricht † 1942-12-28 Dachau | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Maastricht - early resistance - priest - Robert Hubert Willem Regout was a Jesuit and legal scholar. In 1934, he received his doctorate from the University of Nijmegen on the doctrine of “just war”. From 1939 he was an associate professor of international law there. During the occupation, he provided information everywhere on the constraints of international law to which any occupying power had to adhere, e.g., in a June 1940 article De rechtstoestand in bezet gebied (The Legal Situation in Occupied Territory) on the Hague Land Warfare Regulations, original text see link below. He was feared by the occupiers for his attitude, agitation, and expertise, and was arrested in late June 1940.
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| Reichert,
Franciscus P. Vrijn | ∗ 1873-08-29 Delft † 1944-09-14 Nijmegen | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Nijmegen - L.O. - K.P. - - press - The outskirts of Limburg - A trader by profession as well as a courier for the LO-KP out of conviction. Also Vrij Nederland. On September 14, 1944 he was shot in his house because of his work for V.N. [2]. The following can be read on :oorlogsdodennijmegen.nl [4]: Frans Reichert, married to Margaretha Wilhelmina Hienkens and father of six adult children, worked for the resistance group Vrij Nederland under the pseudonym VRIJN. On May 20, 1944, the police, led by Pieter Versloot and Marinus Verstappen, searched his apartment but found nothing. Another raid followed at midnight on September 14, 1944, when German SD man Kuhnert, together with Nijmegen police officer Anton Wiebe, searched Reichert’s apartment (again). Kuhnert shot Reichert in the head as he tried to escape through the kitchen. He was buried in his garden with the help of his neighbors, the Bossmann family.
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| Ritzen,
Servatius | ∗ 1888-08-11 Maastricht † 1944-09-14 Maastricht | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Maastricht - begr. Maastricht This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel.- |
| Rodriguez /Rodrigues,
Jozef Marius Jozef | ∗ 1900-03-05 Paramaribo † 1944-07-21 Leusden | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Nijmegen - dutch soldier - press - The outskirts of Limburg - Retired KNIL sergeant [1] Jozef Rodriguez (also spelled Rodrigues) listened to radio transmissions from London and distributed illegal newspapers and pamphlets. He was arrested by the notorious Wiebe at 1:30 a.m. on June 30, 1944. He was imprisoned first in Arnhem, then in the Amersfoort camp, and was executed on July 21, 1944, in retaliation for attacks on German soldiers in Nijmegen on the Leusden heath, having previously dug his own grave. Rodriguez was one of twelve Surinamese who died in the Netherlands for their resistance activities. [6] After the war, Rodriguez was buried in Daalseweg Cemetery until the fall of 1969, when he was reburied in the field of honor at Vredehof Cemetery in Nijmegen. [4] A list of the victims of the above reprisals can be found on our website [2] (red link) and on oorlogsdodennijmegen.nl [6]. Monument to the Surinamese survivors of the Second World War, Waterkant, Paramaribo [3]
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| Rohling ,
Francisca | ∗ 1875-01-18 Dokkum † 1945-03-27 Maastricht | ♀ - This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Maastricht - Herman Joseph Frederik Brinkman en zijn echtgenote Francisca Alberta Maria Rohling stonden op het moment van hun overlijden ingeschreven in het bevolkingsregister van Roermond. Het zijn dus oorlogsslachtoffers van Roermond. Alleen Francisca Alberta Maria Rohling heeft een connectie met Maastricht, omdat zij op 27 maart 1945 overleden is in een van de repatriëringsziekenhuizen in Maastricht. In het boek ‘Het verborgen front’ van APM Cammaert valt het volgende over hen (en hun daden) te lezen: “Vanaf september 1944 tot 12 januari 1945 verscheen in Roermond ‘De Postduif’, een op een schrijfmachine vervaardigd krantje met nieuws over de geallieerde opmars, overgenomen van de BBC en radio Oranje. De makers wilden de in kelders levende bevolking van Roermond zo goed mogelijk op de hoogte houden van de laatste ontwikkelingen aan de fronten. ‘De Postduif’ kwam elke dag uit in een oplage van circa zestig stuks. Tot de makers en verspreiders behoorden de 70-jarige notaris HJF Brinkman, zijn dochter SMAJ de Puniet de Parry-Brinkman, A Raupp, ir. Schlösser en de Haagse onderduiker D Steenmeyer. Het echtpaar Van Leeuwen typte het blad in de woning van de begin mei 1943 terechtgestelde illegale werker MAM Bouman. Op 12 januari 1945 troffen Duitse militairen een exemplaar van de ‘Postduif’ aan in de woning van Brinkman. De bejaarde notaris, zijn echtgenote F. Brinkman-Rohling en hun dochter werden hechtenis genomen en opgesloten in de gevangenis van Keulen. Daar ondergingen ze een zeer slechte behandeling. H. Brinkman overleed er op 5 maart 1945 en zijn dochter vijf dagen later. Mevrouw Brinkman kwam de doorstane ontberingen niet meer te boven. Zij stierf in maart 1945 in het ziekenhuis van Maastricht.” This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel.- |
| Rutten,
Eduard | ∗ 1923-08-12 Maastricht † 1945-04-23 Flossenburg | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Maastricht - inw Schinnen This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel.- |
| Saive,
Jozef | ∗ 1924-04-23 Vaals † 1945-03-20 Vaals | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Vaals - dutch soldier - Ordedienst - Jozef (nickname Jeu, pronounce Yö) Saive is described by some sources as a resistance fighter, but his name is not on the wall of the memorial chapel on the Cauberg because he was too young to join the resistance during the occupation (20 when he died). But shortly after the liberation of South Limburg he died fighting against National Socialism as a member of the OD (Grenswachtcompagnie Maastricht II, platoon Gulpen) and therefore he is also on this list. He served on the Dutch-Belgian border near Wolfhaag, south of Vaals, and was just talking to his girlfriend during a patrol when he noticed a group of suspicious people. They were members of the "Werwolf" terrorist group who were on their way on order of Himmler to assassinate the Mayor of Aachen, Franz Oppenhoff, who had been appointed by the Allies. Jeu ran after them while his girlfriend went to get help. He was shot in an exchange of fire and died shortly thereafter. The Werwolf commando had been dropped out of a captured American B-17 (Flying Fortress) aircraft over the Belgian border area. Why there? The region had been liberated in September 1944. German infiltrants were more likely to be expected from the east. The werewolves apparently used the old smuggling route along the B-NL border on their way to Aachen via the 3 borders point. When Dutch customs officers came, the smugglers ued to switch to the Belgian side and vice versa. Behind the 3 borders point in Germany begins the Aachen Forest, which stretches south along the whole of Aachen and from which Oppenhoff’s house was easily accessible. A few days later, on March 25, 1945, he was murdered. See the Open Street Map link below.
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| Sambeek,
van Cornelis Kees van Maas en Waal | ∗ 1921-11-03 Nijmegen † 1945-04-04 Gemen | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - dutch soldier - L.O. - K.P. - The outskirts of Limburg - Kees had attended secondary school in Nijmegen and had contacts with resistance people there. In the area of the rivers Maas and Waal, west of Nijmegen, there were local and individual resistance activities. But joining a national organization was still pending. In January 1944, Van Sambeek was entrusted with the organization of a new district and thus became district leader of the LO-KP of "Maas en Waal". As such, he attended a meeting of the LO leaders of the Limburg region. However, this was betrayed. Almost all participants were arrested and most of them died in German concentration camps. Kees was barely able to escape. See the Raid of Weert, link below. During the approach of the Allies, the LO/KP, the OD and the RVV were merged under the name Binnenlandse Strijdkrachten (Domestic Forces). However, this hardly worked. In September, the armed parts of the resistance were given the opportunity to join the Stoottroepen (literally: shock troops). Kees also became a member there, in the Noord-Brabant commando. The Stoottroepen, initially under the command of the Dutch "Militair Gezag" (military authority), came under Allied command after the liberation of the southern provinces. The Commando Brabant was under English command, the Commando Limburg under that of the U.S. Army. This meant a considerable improvement in armament and other equipment. In the early days of the regiment, the leaders did not know ranks. These individuals had become leaders by virtue of their competencies during the occupation. During a mission with the Allied forces, Kees was killed in a motorcycle accident.
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| Schabbink,
Gerard | ∗ 1908-04-25 Utrecht † 1945-01-01 Heer | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Maastricht - Gerard Schabbink was arts en was in de nieuwjaarsnacht onderweg om de Amerikanen hulp te verlenen.
Stoottroepen Limburg
Bijdragen
De volgende bijdragen zijn door bezoekers toegevoegd:
Gerard Schabbink
Schabbink was in de oudejaarsnacht onderweg om hulp te bieden.
Kwam in Heer bij een verkeersongeluk om het leven.
Werd begraven op Maastricht-Oostermaas, graf 11 79 of H79.
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| Schaik,
van Jan H. | ∗ 1922-04-10 Utrecht † 1944-07-09 Boven-Leeuwen | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - L.O. - K.P. - Student - The outskirts of Limburg - Student (Oorlogsgravenstichting.nl [5]) and machinist (Honor Roll of the Fallen [1]). Died on the night of July 8-9, 1944, in a firefight with landwachters (land guards) [7] near Leeuwen [4]. In a letter to the editor of the Veluwsch Dagblad [2], resistance comrades reported that Van Schaik and Knottenbelt had fallen for the Fatherland at 1:15 am. They belonged to the LO and the CP of the district Maas and Waal. Jan is buried on the national field of honor in Loenen [3]. For a more detailed account of this deadly encounter with the landwachters [7], see Traces of War [6]. A quote: On the night of July 8-9, 1944, resistance men from Wamel disguised as policemen went to Boven-Leeuwen to attack a controller of the food supply authority. He was suspected of embezzling flour for his own use. On the way, however, the group of resistance fighters encountered a patrol of the Landwacht, which immediately opened fire. Van Schaik, who was armed only with a dagger, and Frans Knottenbelt were fatally shot.
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| Schoenmaeckers,
Paul Jean | ∗ 1886-09-21 Amby (Maastricht) † 1945-04-21 Obrnice (Č) | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Amby - Belgium - early resistance - Ceremony Stumbling Stones Paul Fernand Cécile Ghislain Marie Schoenmaeckers from Amby (today a quarter of Maastricht) married Hélène Palmers on June 12, 1911 in Stevoort near Hasselt. From then on they lived in Rekem (Belgian Limburg). During the occupation, they joined the Comet escape line, together with their sons, Michel and Jean and his wife Marguerite De Bissy. They worked there for Line (pronounce: Leene). That was the pseudonym of Olympe Félicie Henriette DOBY. Paul and his wife Helene were also hiding a Jewish girl in their home. Most of the refugees this group helped on (mostly to Brussels) were downed allied airmen, “supplied” mainly from the Maastricht region, especially by Paul’s sisters Hélène and Adèle, who were still living in their parents’ house in Amby. Paul and his youngest son Michel were arrested on November 26, 1943; Jean just managed to escape. Paul died in a transport near Obrnice (German: Obernitz), now the Czech Republic.
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| Schortinghuis,
Jacobus Reinder Bob (van de recherche) | ∗ 1923-02-14 Delfzijl † 1945-04-25 Hedel | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Nijmegen - dutch soldier - K.P. - Student - The outskirts of Limburg - Koos Schortinghuis was a member of the Knokploeg (armed group) of Nijmegen [1] and as such was qualified to join the Dutch army after the liberation of Nijmegen. He died as a member of the Prinses Irene Brigade [2][7]. Rank: soldier OVW (Oorlogsvrijwilliger = war volunteer). On the website Bevrijding van Nederland - Nijmegenaren in geallieerde dienst (Liberation of the Netherlands - Nijmegen Citizens in Allied Service) [3] we read: 1940-1945 : Koos Schortinghuis belonged to the Knokploeg Nijmegen under the leadership of Theo Dobbe. After the liberation of the southern part of the Netherlands, he joined the Royal Dutch Brigade Princess Irene as a volunteer. As a shock trooper, he was killed at Hedel (Noord-Brabant) in April. On the evening of April 25, a Brenguncarrier (armored personnel carrier [4]) hit a mine that had been laid by the Germans in the middle of the village of Hedel on the Uithovensestraat. The four-ton tracked vehicle overturned. Private Schortinghuis landed half under it and was killed instantly. The other three occupants were injured. On April 22, Montgomery had issued a general ban on attacks so as not to jeopardize the food shipments to the Randstad (the densely populated and not yet liberated western part of the Netherlands) authorized by Seyss-Inquart. Nevertheless, the battle for Hedel continued, in which Schortinghuis was one of the victims. Many details about him can be found in the Groninger Archieven, Systeemkaarten van verzetsbetrokkenen (OVCG) System cards of resistance fighters. [5]
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| Selder,
Hubertus | ∗ 1923-04-20 Roermond † 1944-12-26 Elmpt (D) | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Roermond - person in hiding - Carpenter. Belonged to the 14 Roermonders murdered during Christmas 1944, who were shot just across the German border, in order to expel their male townmates between the ages of 16 and 60.
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| Sijbers,
Piet | ∗ 1912-02-01 Tegelen † 1942-05-15 Neuengamme | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Tegelen - CPN - Peter Johannes Sijbers was a soap dealer. He was considered a communist by the municipality of Tegelen and was therefore arrested by the occupying forces. But according to his brother Frits he was never a communist at all, but probably a great admirer of the Berber-Moroccan freedom fighter Abd el Karim el-Khattabi. A policeman warned him, but again according to his brother, Piet replied: “So what, I’m not a communist!” (Source: Theo Laumans, Oorlogservaringen uit Tegelen en Belfeld, 2003, pp. 92-93). Nevertheless, he is in the CPN card file box, card 55, with the note: Help to KPD emigrants from Germany, organization IRH (International Red Aid). Buried at Nationaal Ereveld Loenen, grave D 185. This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel.04-27 |
| Span,
Petrus Piet | ∗ 1908-10-14 Nijmegen † 0000-00-00 Leusderheide | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Nijmegen - CPN - press - person in hiding - The outskirts of Limburg - Piet Span was a carpenter. Distributor of De Waarheid (The Truth), had gone into hiding in the Waterkwartier. He was betrayed, the identity of the traitor is unclear. Arrested on June 17, 1944 at 1:05 a.m. by constable C.L. Geerts. At 11:00 he was taken with three others by Wiebe and Hidskes to the SD/SiPo in Arnhem. On July 21, 1944, he was executed together with other men from Nijmegen on the heath of Leusden, after he had dug his own grave. [1] Span’s body could only be buried in the Groenestraat Cemetery (N-16-8) in October 1945. In the fall of 1969, he was reburied on the field of honor of the Vredehof Cemetery in Nijmegen. [2] One of the stories about the assassination attempt three weeks later on German soldier Otto Geschefsky says that this was an act of revenge for the arrest of four communist resistance fighters from Nijmegen (Arp Wagter, Jan van Eldert, Piet Treijtel and Piet Span mentioned here). Another story says that two inexperienced boys, aged 17 and 18, were assigned to take away a list of names of resistance fighters from Nijmegen from this Geschefsky. A girl friend lured him to Kronenburgerpark and they ambushed him. Geschefsky drew his pistol, but was shot himself with it. [3] Perhaps both stories are true? On his funeral card [2b] the date of birth is given as October 14, 1914 (incorrect, changed to 1908 in ballpoint pen on his daughter’s copy of the funeral card). Listed in the Roll of Honor 1940-1945 of the Dutch Parliament [4].
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| Spillenaar Bilgen,
Marinus | ∗ 1892-10-25 Salatiga, NOI † 1944-09-04 Vught | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Nijmegen - L.O. - K.P. - press - The outskirts of Limburg - The pharmacist’s son Marinus Spillenaar Bilgen, as director of the Gelderland paper mill in Nijmegen, supplied large quantities of paper to underground newspapers such as Trouw [2][5] and collected money for the NSF (Nationaal Steun Fonds, National Support Fund [1], financed the resistance). He was also a member of the Knokploeg (armed group). He studied mechanical engineering in Delft, where the later prominent NSB member Meinoud Rost van Tonningen was his rowing mate. He was arrested on August 7, 1944 in connection with his activities for Trouw and was executed on September 4, 1944 in Herzogenbusch concentration camp. (Article Peter Bak, Trouw newspaper, May 4, 2020 [2])
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| Stad,
van der Nicolaas | ∗ 1890-02-07 Nijmegen † 1942-05-11 Oranienburg | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Maastricht - press - Ordedienst - Cellist, muziekleraar, directeur Muziek Lyceum Amsterdam en Nijmeegsche Volksmuzieschool. Oprichter O.D. en Parool in Nijmegen. Zat in de landelijke OD-top. gearresteerd op 4 oktober 1941. Waarschijnlijk gefusilleerd in kamp Sachsenhausen te Oranienburg.
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| Stinkens,
Hubert | ∗ 1923-12-04 As † 1944-09-14 Gangelt (D) | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Belgium - Secret Army (B) - He lived in Gruitrode, Belgian Limburg. Originally buried in a mass grave in Gangelt (D). Last resting place: Unknown (Source: Memorial for seven executed Belgian resistance fighters, bel-memorial.be)
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| Strik,
Fransiscus Petrus Maria Frans /Francis | ∗ 1923-10-30 Asten † 1944-01-28 Gilze en Rijen | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - L.O. - The outskirts of Limburg - LO-Bakel/Asten. “Arrested on October 7, 1943, during a road check. Was in possession of ration cards.” (Het grote gebod, p. 327) Do you know more? Write us!
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| Teelen /Theelen,
Jacques | ∗ 1924-10-14 Neeroeteren † 1944-09-12 Heer | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Heer - Belgium - Secret Army (B) -
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| Tobben,
Jan Catharina | ∗ 1928-03-14 Roermond † 1944-12-26 Elmpt (D) | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Roermond - person in hiding - Belonged to the 14 Roermonders murdered during Christmas 1944, who were shot just across the German border, in order to expel their male townmates between the ages of 16 and 60. Detailed information on this website: The Tears of Roermond. This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel.04-29 |
| Toussaint,
Christiaan Canisius Christ | ∗ 1896-10-21 Nijmegen † 1944-07-21 Leusden | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Nijmegen - press - The outskirts of Limburg - Christ Toussaint was a department head at the E.R.K. (Eerste Rooms Katholieke Levensverzekering Maatschappij). He distributed radio news from London and forbidden newspapers and supported the resistance financially. [1] We owe many biographical details to his daughter C. Beukering-Toussaint. [4] On June 29, 1944, he was arrested with his neighbor Ernest van Geuns, and on July 21, 1944, he and seven other Nijmegen citizens were executed on the heath of Leusden in retaliation for attacks on German soldiers, having previously dug their own graves. [2] He was reburied in the municipal cemetery Vredehof [3], Erehof 20 [5].
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| Treytel /Treijtel,
Petrus Laurentius Piet | ∗ 1877-08-09 Rotterdam † 1944-07-21 Leusderheide | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Nijmegen - CPN - press - The outskirts of Limburg - Piet Treijtel was a carpenter. He worked on the party newspaper De Waarheid (the truth) and was involved in various other illegal activities. He was arrested by the nefarious Wiebe at 4:00 a.m. on June 17, 1944. One of the stories about the assassination attempt three weeks later on German soldier Otto Geschefsky says that this was an act of revenge for the arrest of four communist resistance fighters from Nijmegen (Arp Wagter, Jan van Eldert, Piet Treijtel and Piet Span). Another story says that two inexperienced boys, aged 17 and 18, were assigned to take away a list of names of resistance fighters from Nijmegen from this Geschefsky. A girl friend lured him to Kronenburgerpark and they ambushed him. Geschefsky drew his pistol, but was shot himself. [1] Piet is buried in Nijmegen [2]. |
| Tripels,
Jenny | ∗ 1883-07-21 Maastricht † 1945-02-06 Ravensbrück | ♀ - This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Maastricht - Belgium - Jenny Emma Félicie Tripels was a Dutch member of the Belgian resistance during World War II. She became acquainted during World War I with the Belgian Charles Stockmans, an Antwerp based industrialist who fled to the Netherlands during the war and became active in an intelligence network that collected information on the Belgian railroad lines. During World War II, Tripels was recruited by Stockmans in 1941 or 1942 into an intelligence network he had set up at the request of the French Colonel Rémy. The network was busted by the Germans in June 1942. On June 12, 1942, Jenny was arrested in Liege. Most of the members were executed, Tripels and three others were deported. She died in 1945 at Ravensbrück concentration camp.
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| Ubachs,
Jan | ∗ 1920-09-07 Maastricht † 1945-02-10 kdo Gusen | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Maastricht - inw Maastricht This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel.- |
| Ubachs,
Theodorus | ∗ 1888-10-05 Gronsveld † 1944-10-02 Maastricht | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Maastricht - inw Maastricht This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel.- |
| Ummels,
Petrus | ∗ 1917-02-25 Maastricht † 1944-06-16 Berlijn | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Maastricht - inw. Maastricht This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel.- |
| Vandijck /Vandyck /Vandijk,
Laurent Albert /Albert | ∗ 1925-10-08 Neeroeteren † 1944-09-14 Gangelt (D) | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Belgium - Secret Army (B) - He lived in Neeroeteren, Belgian Limburg. Originally buried in a mass grave in Gangelt (D). Last resting place: Unknown (Source: Memorial for seven executed Belgian resistance fighters, bel-memorial.be)
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| Veenstra,
Jacob | ∗ 1919-12-23 Amsterdam † 1944-02-09 Helgoland | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Maastricht - strafkamp This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel.- |
| Verdijk,
Marius P.J. | ∗ 1907-11-15 Beugen † 1945-05-21 Malchow, Kr. Waren | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - L.O. - The outskirts of Limburg - LO-Vierlingsbeek. Civil servant at the municipal secretary’s office. “Arrested on June 28, 1944 during a search on instruction of the NSB mayor” (Het grote gebod (The Great Commandment), p. 327) This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel.03-06 |
| Verhoeven,
Hubertus | ∗ 1919-08-25 Maastricht † 1945-04-21 Dachau | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Maastricht - inw Maastricht This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel.- |
| Verstrijden,
Ludovicus | ∗ 1918-11-11 Amsterdam † 1942-05-11 Oranienburg | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Maastricht - gefusilleerd This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel.- |
| Visser,
Adriaan | ∗ 1918-08-02 Maastricht † 1945-03-08 Utrecht | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Maastricht - gefusilleerd This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel.- |
| Vliexs,
Huberta Leonie Maria Bertha | ∗ 1923-01-06 Amby † 1944-09-11 Opglabbeek (B) | ♀ - This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Amby - Belgium - Secret Army (B) - During World War II, four of the Vliexs sisters were in the Belgian resistance organization the Secret Army. Bertha was unmarried and worked as a nurse with the Red Cross. For more information, see also her sister Pia. She “lived in Maastricht”. … “Bertha, as her call name was, was executed together with her sister Josephine Alphonsina (Pia), among others. A total of nine people were executed, including the Belgian widow Maria Voorpijl (∗ November 13, 1897 Maaseik). All were accused of being members of the secret army”. (Traces of War [1]). The digital local edition for Oudsbergen of Het Belang van Limburg mentions Maria Hubertinia Voorpijl. [2] |
| Vliexs,
Marie Hubertina Theodora Pia | ∗ 1920-05-18 Maastricht † 1944-09-11 Opglabbeek (B) | ♀ - This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Amby - Belgium - Secret Army (B) - The daily newspaper Het Belang van Limburg wrote on September 18, 2017 [1] under the title "The 9/11 of Opglabbeek": "Shot after an attack by resistance fighters on retiring Germans. In addition to Nicolaas Esser, Antonius Alenus, Renier Coolen, Henri and Josef Dirckx, Jaak Hellings, Pierre Paspont, Pieter Slootmaekers, Jacq Vanaanhoud, sisters Leonie and Maria Vliexs and Maria Hubertinia Voorpijl were also shot without any form of trial." In reality, it was not an attack, but a very unfortunate confluence of circumstances and probably treason that led to the Maaseik section of the Secret Army ceasing to exist shortly before the liberation. Read more about this in the introduction about the Secret Army. The Vliexs sisters also belonged to this section. Their father was from Hulsberg, their mother from Meerssen. They married in Amby and moved from there first to Maastricht and later to Maaseik in Belgian Limburg. In the middle of 1942, the dean of Maaseik knocked on the door of the Vliex family. He asked if they could help four escaped French prisoners of war. The four stayed in their house for a few days and then moved to an old barn nearby for an unknown reason. In the evenings, the sisters brought food and drink to the barn. Thus, the three older sisters, including Pia and Bertha, joined the secret army in 1941. Alphonsine (Sieske) Vliexs (∗ Amby, November 2, 1925 - † Maaseik, March 11, 2016) also wanted to join. At the time she was deemed too young, but later she too joined in. [3.1][4] After the disaster of September 10 and 11, 1944, nine people were murdered in the vicinity of Maaseik, others between Heer and Cadier en Keer, a third group even further east, on the German-Dutch border, while the cannons of the approaching Allies could already be heard. All were accused of being members of the secret army. [1][2]
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| Vliexs,
Bertha | ∗ 1923-01-06 Amby † 1944-09-11 Opglabbeek | ♀ - This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Maastricht - gefusilleerd This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel.- |
| Vliexs,
Pia | ∗ 1920-05-18 Maastricht † 1944-09-11 Opglabbeek | ♀ - This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Maastricht - gefusilleerd This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel.- |
| Voncken,
Willem | ∗ 1889-02-19 Maastricht † 1942-05-03 Sachsenhausen | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Maastricht - gefusilleerd This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel.- |
| Vries,
de Douwe Hans | ∗ 0000-00-00 † 0000-00-00 | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - L.O. - K.P. - The outskirts of Limburg - LO en KP. Na de bevrijding overleden mede ten gevolge van zijn verzetswerk. This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel.03-12 |
| Vugt,
van Daniël Daan | ∗ 1896-05-02 Rotterdam † 1945-04-25 Kdo. Sandbostel, Neuengamme | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Nijmegen - The outskirts of Limburg -  Wikimedia Memorial chapel with the graves of Daniel van Vugt and other victims of “Ederveen” Gynecologist Daniel van Vugt collaborated with the resistance group within the Nijmegen police. He also participated in the medical resistance. Married with Antoinette P.M. Schaepman (1901-1987) in 1924 in Zwolle. In 1929 he settled as a gynecologist in Nijmegen, from June 1932 in the Sint-Annastraat 25.
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| Vuist,
Johannes | ∗ 1915-04-28 Essen (D) † 1944-09-13 Sachsenhausen | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Maastricht - This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel.- |
| Wagter,
Arp | ∗ 1907-01-17 Groningen † 1944-07-21 Leusden | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Nijmegen - CPN - press - The outskirts of Limburg - Arp Wagter was a blacksmith and machine fitter. On June 6, 1944, he was arrested in Nijmegen. On oorlogsdodennijmegen.nl we read about him [6]: Arp Wagter, married to Hendrika Coenders and childless, distributed banned newspapers in Nijmegen. He was a member of a communist resistance group. He was arrested by constable C.L. Geerts at 1 a.m. on June 17, 1944, and taken to the SD in Arnhem by Wiebe and Hidskes at 11 a.m. the next day. On July 21, 1944, he and 7 others from Nijmegen were executed on the heath of Leusden [1], having previously had to dig his own grave. Wagter was buried on Rustoord after the war (Y 238). [2] One of the stories about the assassination three weeks later on German soldier Otto Geschefsky says that this was an act of revenge for the arrest of four communist resistance fighters from Nijmegen (Arp Wagter, Jan van Eldert, Piet Treijtel and Piet Span). Another story says that two inexperienced boys, aged 17 and 18, were assigned to take away a list of names of resistance fighters from Nijmegen from this Geschefsky. A girl friend lured him to Kronenburgerpark and they ambushed him. Geschefsky drew his pistol, but was shot himself with it. [3] His name is on the Erelijst van Gevallenen 1940-1945 van de Staten-Generaal (List of honour 1940-1945 of the Dutch Parliament) [4]
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| Weert,
de Jacques J. Zwarte Jacques, Victor | ∗ 1921-04-10 Zundert † 1944-09-05 Kamp Vught | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Nijmegen - L.O. - Student - person in hiding - The outskirts of Limburg - Fred Cammaert writes in his dissertation [1]: Already at the beginning of the war, groups were formed that focused on falsifying documents. The L.O. sought support from or received help from some of these groups. J. Hendrikx, for example, formed a forgery group in Venlo in early 1943. F. Halewijn and some associates produced stamps, certificates, and all sorts of other documents. In Nijmegen, as already mentioned, a group headed by J.J. de Weert, a law student, was working, and in The Hague P. van Pesch and J.G. de Groot, who had set up a forgery office there more than a year after leaving Heerlen. De Groot’s office in particular provided invaluable services to the underground in much of the eastern and southern Netherlands. Because of their contacts with the L.O., these groups came into contact with each other during 1943. J. Hendrikx played a leading role in bringing together the various forger groups. De Weert’s group was in financial difficulties, and Hendrikx offered his support on the condition that De Weert would henceforth work for the L.O.. In early 1944 Hendrikx had the Venlo office moved to Nijmegen, and after the arrival of Van Pesch in Nijmegen, the plan to merge the various groups could be realized. A meeting was scheduled for March 30, 1944, at which Hendrikx, De Weert and his close associate M.M. Oosenbrug, as well as the head of the combat group Th. Dobbe were expected. De Weert, however, did not appear. The day before, he and his courier had been arrested in Amsterdam. On September 5, he was shot in Vught. Oosenbrug became his successor and head of the L.O.’s Falsification Headquarters (F.C.-L.O.). The "headquarters" remained in Nijmegen until the summer of 1944, with outposts or distribution points in Zwolle, Eindhoven, and The Hague. In late July or early August, the F.C.-L.O. was moved to Malden, near Nijmegen, where it operated until the liberation of Nijmegen on September 20. After that, other offices in the parts of the country that had not yet been liberated took over the work of the F.C.-L.O. On the website oorlogsdodennijmegen.nl we read about Jacques de Weert [6]: Jacques de Weert was a law student at the Roman Catholic University in Nijmegen since 1940. He remained in Nijmegen until the beginning of 1943 and specialized in forging documents of all kinds for the benefit of the underground movement. His underground name was Black Jacques, Victor or Vick. He expanded his forgery group into a national organization and was appointed head of the National Office for Illegal Forgeries of the LO, the National Organization for Persons in Hiding in The Hague. He was arrested on March 29, 1943, and executed in the Vught concentration camp on September 5, 1944.[3] In the entrance hall of the auditorium of Radboud University in Nijmegen, Jacques de Weert is inscribed on the memorial plaque for members of the university community who have been killed in World War II. [4]
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| Wijhe,
van Frans | ∗ 1886-11-11 Maastricht † 1946-05-07 Haarlem | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Maastricht - onbekend This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel.- |
| Will,
Peter | ∗ 1896-08-21 Schoonhoven † 1945-04-24 Transport | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Nijmegen - L.O. - press - police - The outskirts of Limburg - Quality inspector in the slaughterhouse of Nijmegen [1] and honorary policeman. After May 1940, he helped people who wanted to escape forced labor in Germany. He distributed the underground newspaper Trouw [8], took care of people in hiding, helped stranded Allied airmen, and was involved in espionage activities as a member of the radio group of Captain Hogerland’s organization. [2] Arrested on December 1, 1943, for working for Trouw. According to his family, he died in Germany between April 13 and 18, 1945. In the spring of 2021, the Nijmegen City Council decided to name one of the streets in the Hof van Holland quarter after him. Our father, Peter Will, … was a prisoner of the German SiPo-SD (security police) from December 2, 1943 until his death in April 1945. In the Netherlands he was imprisoned in Arnhem from December 2, 1943. On May 20, 1944, he was sent to the Polizeiliches Durchgangslager (police transit camp) in Amersfoort. A detailed article about Peter Will can be found in the German Wikipedia [6].
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| Winters,
Willem | ∗ 1896-02-06 Utrecht † 1944-12-26 Elmpt (D) | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Roermond - person in hiding - Factory worker. Belonged to the 14 Roermonders murdered during Christmas 1944, who were shot just across the German border, in order to expel their male townmates between the ages of 16 and 60. Detailed information on this website: The Tears of Roermond. This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel.04-31 |
| Witvoet,
Marinus | ∗ 1922-12-13 Emmen † 1944-10-28 Venlo | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Geleen - CPN - press - Mijnwerker uit Geleen, medewerker van de Waarheid maar geen partijlid. Opgepakt 24 maart 1944 in Geleen. Gedeporteerd naar Remscheid (D). Omgekomen tijdens bombardement op de Maasbruggen in Venlo tijdens zijn tweede ontvluchtingspoging. Opgegeven voor de erelijst.
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| Wolfs,
Jean | ∗ 1923-06-20 Maaseik † 1944-09-12 Heer | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Heer - Belgium - Secret Army (B) -
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| Wolfs,
Jules | ∗ 1923-04-29 Maaseik † 1944-09-12 Heer | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Heer - Belgium - Secret Army (B) -
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| Woudt,
van ’t Cornelis | ∗ 1897-12-16 Overschie † 1942-05-11 Oranienburg | This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel. - Maastricht - gefusilleerd This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel.- |
