The fallen resistance people in Limburg

Edmund (Ed) Konieczny /Koniecny

Het Grote Gebod – L.O.

Edmund Konieczny lived in Heerlen and was an interpreter and sworn translator. His parents were born in Poland. Member of LO-Heerlen.
Konieczny, who practiced the profession of interpreter/translator since the end of 1942, dedicated himself mainly to Poles in hiding. In addition, he collected weapons, ammunition and explosives with compatriots and carried out acts of sabotage. As a result of treason, he was arrested by fifteen SS men at his home in Heerlen on August 24, 1944. Cammaert, p.669 [1]
Specialist in the care of Poles in hiding. Was freed from Maastricht prison and entered forbidden territory on his way home. Thus he was shot by the Germans on September 8, 1944. Het Grote Gebod p. p. 339. [2]
On September 5, 1944, eighty prisoners were liberated from the prison in Maastricht by the South Limburg Knokploeg (armed arm of the LO). Apparently Ed Konieczny was among them and perhaps tried to get to Heerlen on his own. Because Berg en Terblijt is located on this route.
There are two versions about the date of his death: According to Cammaert, Konieczny was killed with a shot in the neck on September 7, 1944, in Berg en Terblijt by Richard Nitsch, an employee of the SiPo in Maastricht.
The documents give 8 September 1944 as his date of death. [3]
However, both registrations took place only one month later, on october 5th, 1944. [3]
In favor of Cammaert’s version is the fact that Berg en Terblijt is less than 10 km away from Maastricht, i.e. not two days march. Moreover: the sources I consulted when I wrote this give the date of september 7, 1944. On that day the SiPo left Maastricht to settle in Hoensbroek. That they returned to Berg en Terblijt a day later to kill K. does not make sense. (Mail F. Cammaert to the author)
Married to Maria Katharina Elizabeth Delahaye. [4]
Buried: Cemetry Akerstraat in Heerlen, Catholic part, row 1, grave 2340 [5]
Read more: Antoon van Aernsbergen, Onze gevallenen. [6]

Footnotes

1. Dr. F. Cammaert, Het Verborgen Front – Geschiedenis van de georganiseerde illegaliteit in de provincie Limburg tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Groningen 1994
   6. De Landelijke Organisatie voor hulp aan onderduikers
2. Drs L.E.M.A. van Hommerich, Het Grote Gebod. Limburg
3. wiewaswie.nl † 08-09 1944 684/1944 Heerlen & Berg en Terblijt)
4. × Maria Katharina Elizabeth Delahaye, 21-06-1940, Kerkrade
5. online-begraafplaatsen.nl
6. Antoon van Aernsbergen, onze gevallenen, herinneringen aan het verzet in limburg in de tweede wereldoorlog, Stichting Herdenking der Gevallenen van het Verzet in Limburg 1940|1945, 1964, pag. 146
7. https://www.wo2slachtoffers.nl/bio/51974/Konieczny-Edmund.htm
8. https://www.openarch.nl/rhl:c9cad46f-e788-f179-0b21-2218d1de4a8a/nl