The fallen resistance people in Limburg

Wim Rooyackers /Rooijackers
(Wilhelmus Antonius)

Het Grote Gebod – L.O.

Wim Rooyackers was a trade correspondent and a member of the mine police. Almost from the beginning of the war he was involved with prisoners of war who had escaped from German camps. [1][2#3] He also was involved in a failed assassination attempt [2#4] and he was active in the group that distributed the illegal magazine Het Parool in South Limburg. [2#11]
He was busted together with the midwife A.M. Bensen-Offermans, who was liberated in the Maastricht prison raid.
But Wim Rooijackers was one of many executed in Vught on Dolle Dinsdag (Mad Tuesday). [3]
His mortal remains lie in the asputten (ash pits) behind the crematorium in camp Vught, a.k.a. Herzogenbusch concentration camp. [4.1]
Memorial at the execution site and memorial wall in the National Memorial kamp Vught. [4.2]
For more information, see his brief biographies. [4.3][5]
Wilhelmus Antonius ( Wim ) Rooyackers /Rooijackers is listed in the Erelijst 1940-1945 (Honor Roll of the Dutch Parliament). [6]

Vught • Fusilladeplaats • Former execution site • Ancien site d’exécution


Footnotes

1. Stalag VI J Fichtenhain (Krefeld) & Stalag VI-H Arnoldsweiler (Düren)
2. Dr. F. Cammaert, Het Verborgen Front – Geschiedenis van de georganiseerde illegaliteit in de provincie Limburg tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Doctorale scriptie 1994, Groningen
   #3 Hulpverlening aan uit Duitsland ontvluchte (Franstalige) krijgsgevangenen, p. 217.
   #4 Hulpverlening aan geallieerde piloten en hun bemanningsleden, p. 286
   #11 Illegale pers, p. 1050
3. Wikipedia
   Dolle Dinsdag • Nederlands • Deutsch • English • Français • Español
   Deppner-executies / Erich Deppner • Nederlands • Deutsch
4. Kamp Vught
   1. Asputten
   2. Inleiding
   3. Biogr. Wim Rooijackers
5. wo2slachtoffers.nl Biogr. Wim Rooijackers
6. Erelijst 1940-1945
7. Oorlogsgravenstichting.nl