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Renier “Neer” van de Vin
(Renier Hubertus)
∗ 08-03-1902 Neeritter † 03-08-1952 Roermond (50)
- Pilots’ helpers - Aid to escaped POW’s - Initial resistance - Survivors - Heythuysen & Leudal -
- Cammaert, A. P. M. (1994). Het verborgen front: Geschiedenis van de georganiseerde illegaliteit in de provincie Limburg tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen.
1. Hoofdst. 0, pp.18ff: Introductie van vaak genoemde personen
2. Hoofdst 4: geallieerde piloten, pp.243, 247 - Komeet /Comète, Wikipedia • Nederlands • Deutsch • English • Français • Català
- documentatiegroep40-45.nl Reinier van Vin
- AFEES, Air Forces Escape & Escape Society
Renier van de Vin was born and raised in Neeritter, right on the Belgian border. As far as the L.O was concerned, Neeritter belonged to the rayon of Heythuysen in the district of Roermond.
Cammaert writes: Cattle trader. resistance pioneer. Lived on a farm on the Dutch-Belgian border. He became involved with his wife and his two foster children at an early stage in helping the rapidly swelling stream of Allied refugees. After the arrest of his wife and foster son in 1944 by the Sipo-Hasselt, Van de Vin ceased providing aid. [1.1]
The prisoners of war left for Belgium via R. van de Vin in Neeritter.
… Through the cooperation between Van de Vin and Th. Florquin, the former came into contact with Mrs. G.M.H. Moors in Dilsen. Other helpers in the Belgian border region also worked with her. With notary M. Elens from Stokkem, she formed one of the main links of the Comet line [2] in the Belgian-Limburg border region. Via Liège and Hasselt, all Allied airmen left for Brussels, the center of the organization in Belgium. Comet was formed in June 1941 on the initiative of A. Depée and Miss A. de Jongh (“Dédee”) from Schaarbeek near Brussels. They succeeded in building an escape route to Spain, which remained intact throughout the occupation - although not with the same people all the time. Komeet /Comète was by far the most important escape route: about seven hundred airmen were helped. The network had been functioning since the end of 1941 and new support points were found all over Belgium despite arrests in leadership and numerous personnel changes. [1.2]
Renier van de Vin posthumously obtained the Resistance Memorial Cross. [3]
He is also mentioned by the AFEES (Air Forces Escape & Escape Society) in Chapter 4, The Organizations. [4]
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