The fallen resistance people in Limburg

Jan van Soest

Oorlogsgravenstichting

Jan van Soest, notary student, had gone into hiding at his parents’ on Stalbergweg 36 in Venlo. [1]
There is a form in his file at the OGS that was filled out by his mother. She writes that his arrest took place on August 24, 1944, by the Green Police. Transported via Maastricht, Vught, Bergen-Belsen to Oranienburg, where he perished [2#5]

On oorlogsbronnen.nl we read about two different dates and places where Jan is said to have been arrested: On August 23, 1944, Jan van Soest was arrested in Venlo/Stalbergweg 36.
But on the same page it also says: On July 1, 1944, Jan van Soest was arrested in Rotterdam. [3]
Either these are two different people, or Jan was able to escape from Kamp Amersfoort after July 11, 1944 and then went into hiding with his parents, the place where he would be looked for first and where he was then arrested again on August 23. We think the first possibility is more plausible.

Was he arrested on August 24, 1944 as his mother wrote? It is more likely that he was arrested on the same day as his father Willem van Soest, i.e. August 23.
Jan died in March 1945 in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in Oranienburg, the date is unknown (file 408/1945). [5]

Footnotes

1. Genealogie kuipersvanwijk.nl Jan van Soest
2. Archief Oorlogsgravenstichting (@ Nationaal archief),
   Dossier Jan van Soest • #5
3. oorlogsbronnen.nl Jan van Soest
4. Oorlogsgravenstichting.nl
5. http://historie.venlo.nl/persoon.asp?odID=757