pers.Valkenburg 1940-1945
| Frans Alexander Cobbenhaegen (Frans)
∗ 18-10-1921 Valkenburg
† 20-12-1944
Buchenwald (23)
- Valkenburg - Unorganized resistance - Frans Cobbenhaegen was a post official in Valkenburg, unmarried, arrested (date unknown) in Cologne for smuggling letters to the Netherlands. He passed through the camps of Amersfoort, Sachsenhausen and Buchenwald [1] on his ordeal, and died on Dec. 20, 1944 in concentration camp Kommando Langenstein-Zwieberge, a subcamp of Buchenwald. [2], prisoner no. 93278 [3], buried in Quedlinburg, Hauptfriedhof. [4], 23 years old.
Photo: memorial stone on the former post office in Valkenburg: war victims among postal workers. [6]
- Concentration Camps
- 1. oorlogsgravenstichting.nl
2. Kdo. Langenstein-Zwieberge (Buchenwald), Wikipedia • Nederlands • Deutsch • English • Français • Español - Archief Oorlogsgravenstichting (@ Nationaal archief), Dossier • Frans Cobbenhaegen #14
- vriendenkringneuengamme.nl Frans Cobbenhaegen
- Oorlogsgravenstichting.nl
- https://www.tracesofwar.com/sights/53361/Remembrance-Memorial-Victims-of-War.htm
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