All the fallen resistance people in Limburg

 

Meindert Tempelaars

∗ 06-06-1904 Den Haag     † 02-05-1943 Wellerlooi (Bergen [L]) (38)
- Heerlen - April-Mei-stakingen, 1943 -

Meijnardus Jacobus Tempelaars was a hewer in the state mine Oranje-Nassau III. Arrested in connection with the miners’ strike on the night of May 1 to 2, 1943. He and Renier Savelsberg and Servaas Toussaint were sentenced to death by the Polizeistandgericht (court-martial of the police) in Maastricht and executed by a firing squad of the order police on the heath Hamertse Hei near Wellerlooi
demijnen. nl: De Limburgse mijnen en mijnwerkers tijdens de bezetting 1940-1944 (The Limburg coal mines and miners during the occupation 1940-1944) including the April-May strike 1943
The history of the verzetsmonument (resistance monument) Wellerlooi. According to oorlogsgravenstichting.nl, he was murdered in Maastricht.

• Oorlogsgravenstichting.nl
• https://www.demijnen.nl/actueel/artikel/als-de-mijnwerkers-staken-tegen-de-duitse-bezetter