The fallen resistance people in Limburg

Willem Plas
(Wilhelminus Jan)

There seems to have been uncertainty as to whether Willem Plas was officially called Wilhelmus or Wilhelminus. [1#4]
In the following quotation we find a third variant, but above all more details:
Willeminus Jan Plas lived in Maastricht and started working for the Dutch Railways in May 1943. He was an apprentice train driver in Roermond and was sent to Germany on October 7, 1943, from where he fled again in November 1943. He went into hiding in Leiden, but was arrested in February 1944 and transferred to Vught in July 1944. From there, he was taken to Oranienburg concentration camp on September 6, 1944, where he died on February 15, 1945. [2]
The information that he lived in Maastricht appears to have been transcribed incorrectly. Because according to his file at the OGS, his last known address was in Maasniel near Roermond. [1#1]
His name is on a memorial plaque at Roermond station. [3]
Since he fled from forced labor in Germany and then went into hiding, we can consider him a resister. So did those who put his name on the wall of the resistance memorial, by the way, with the first name Willem. Click on the picture on the right.

Footnotes

1. Archief Oorlogsgravenstichting (@ Nationaal archief), Dossier Willem Plas • #1 • #4
2. Ter gedachtenis aan hen die vielen 1940-1945, Roermond
3. Roermond, plaquette in het station van de Nederlandse Spoorwegen
4. Oorlogsgravenstichting.nl