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The fallen resistance people in Limburg
Max Meiler was a trained electrical technician, but a merchant by profession. He was a contact man in Venlo for the district leader Ambrosius [1].
At the end of February 1941, he was living on the Keizersgracht in Amsterdam when one evening he heard that in a neighboring bank building the janitorial family who lived in the bank was singing the Dutch national anthem. The next day he went there to ask if they would occasionally let Jewish people spend the night there, whom he helped to escape from the province of North Holland north of the IJ to Limburg. During a routine check on the train, Meiler’s forged papers were noticed. He was deported to Westerbork [2].
(Memories of the janitor’s daughter. [3])
Arrested in May 1944.
He was from Nijmegen and apparently had good relations with Limburg.
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