All the fallen resistance people in Limburg

Bernardus Marcus Miché (Bernard)

∗ 30-07-1887 Utrecht † 11-05-1942 Oranienburg (54)
- OD trial of Maastricht - Initial resistance - Ordedienst (O.D.) - Underground Press -

Photo: Linotype typesetting machine, Wikimedia → → →

Bernard Miché was a machine typesetter. [3]
These were people who did typesetting for printed matter with a typesetting machine before the advent of computers. For the resistance groups who dealt with the distribution of banned writings, these people were very important. But there were, of course, simpler means.

The municipality of Utrecht answered questions from the Oorlogsgravenstichting (war graves foundation) about Bernard on March 30, 1955. They are in his file in the National Archives. On sheet #2 we find this statement: [1]
The person in question, who belonged to the OD group, was arrested by the SD in the spring of 1942 for printing illegal literature. He was included in the OD trial - in the so-called group of 72 OD people - and after being sentenced to death he was transported via the prison in Utrecht and presumably the Amersfoort camp to Oranienburg in Germany, where he presumably died by shooting.
This OD trial took place in Amersfoort AND Maastricht. Since his name is on the OD memorial in Maastricht [2], we can assume that he was one of the persons sentenced by the military court in the Third Minorite Monastery in Maastricht.
He is listed in the “Erelijst 1940-1945” (Honor Roll of the Dutch Parliament). [3]

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