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All the fallen resistance people in Limburg
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The chemist Johannis Leendert Cornelis (Han) Boogerd worked for the company E.C.I. (Electrochemische Industrie) at the state mine Emma. "The entire staff of E.C.I. joined the (miners’) strike, after which the twenty-two employees were arrested and taken to Maastricht. In order to intimidate the others, one of them was chosen at random. Together with three miners and three employees of the C.C.D., Boogerd was shot in the evening of May 2 at the Hamert heath, by a firing squad of fifteen men of the Ordnungspolizei. (Cammaert VIa, p.497)
Plaque in the Staatsmijnen/DSM building in Heerlen. According to oorlogsgravenstichting.nl, he died on May 2, 1943 in Maastricht.
Please also read the article: When the miners strike against the German occupiers..