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Johannes Gerardus Hubertus Wolters is listed in the Resistance Memorial on the
left wall, row 22 #03
War Memorial in Aachen-Eilendorf
left wall, row 22 #03
War Memorial in Aachen-Eilendorf
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Jan Wolters
∗ 31-07-1910 Herten † 25-10-1944 Roermond (34)
- Herten - Aid to People in Hiding L.O. -
The fallen resistance people in Limburg
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Jan Wolters
(Johannes Gerardus Hubertus)
∗ 31-07-1910 Herten † 25-10-1944 Roermond (34)
- Herten - Aid to People in Hiding L.O. -
- Dr. F. Cammaert,
Het Verborgen Front – Geschiedenis van de georganiseerde illegaliteit in de provincie Limburg tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Doctorale scriptie 1994, Groningen
6. De Landelijke Organisatie voor hulp aan onderduikers • VIII-IX, p. 629 - Erelijst 1940-1945
- Oorlogsgravenstichting.nl
The miner Jan Wolters had taken in some Russian forced laborers and made no secret of it, had to pay for his carelessness with death on October 25. When he tried to escape after being betrayed by a fellow villager, members of the N.S.D.A.P. Roermond branch shot him in his belly. He succumbed to his injuries in the Roermond hospital. [1]
At that time the Maas River was the front line and the area east of it had been annexed by Germany.
Jan is buried in the municipal cemetery Kapel in ’t Zand, Roermond, grave 22-36, 2e kl.
Johannes Gerardus Hubertus ( Jan ) Wolters is listed in the Erelijst 1940-1945 (Honor Roll of the Dutch Parliament). [2]
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