The fallen resistance people in Limburg

Dominicus Hylarius /Hilarius Ettema

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Dominicus Ettema was deputy director of the cooperative dairy in Zeddam (municipality of Bergh, Montferland) [1] and was listed in the files of the SD/SiPo (Security Service/Security Police) as a local contact person of the LO-Bergh. Ettema probably admitted this during the interrogations. But he was more than that. If he was a local contact person for those in hiding, it must have been in his place of residence, Zeddam. In Bergh he was one of the founders of the LO, so he could have been sub-district leader there and concealed this for good reason.
On June 14, 1944, he was captured as a result of another arrest in which incriminating material was seized. A detailed article with photos about him can be found on berghapedia.nl [2].
On oorlogsdodendinkelland.nl/ there are less details. There we read about him [3]:

Dominicus lived as a boarder at DD 217 in Denekamp from June 1920 to May 1921. Then he moved to Zeddam, where he became deputy director of the dairy.
He was the youngest in a family of nine children, some of whom died young. His parents moved to Düsseldorf around 1900. His mother died in 1922 and his father in 1927, both in Düsseldorf. Dominicus returned to the Netherlands in 1913, where he lived in Wisch, Zutphen, Borne and Denekamp.
At the beginning of the German occupation, he became involved in the resistance. Together with some friends he founded a resistance group in Zeddam to support people in hiding. He was known to the S.D. as the diving chief of the area (L.O. Bergh). He supplied the people in hiding (also called divers) with food and coupons, which were obtained mainly through raids on distribution offices. The group also obtained forged papers, stamps, and distribution master cards.
In Whitsun week 1944, the SS busted part of the organization and arrested a number of members, including Ettema. They were first taken to Arnhem and then transferred to the Amersfoort concentration camp on May 27. On October 11, he was transported to Neuengamme. He was one of 1439 prisoners who were transported from Amersfoort to Neuengamme on October 11. Among them were 602 men who had been arrested during the raid in Putten on October 1. Ettema was there in the main camp with prisoner number 56199 and died here on 11 January 1945 under unknown circumstances. [3]

In Zeddam, his last residence, Ettemastraat is named after him [5.1] and he is listed on the war memorial [5.2].
He is on page 824 in the Roll of Honor of the Fallen 1940-1945. [6]

Footnotes

1. OpenStreetMap:Bergh
2. berghapedia.nl Dominicus Hylarius Ettema
3. https://oorlogsdodendinkelland.nl/slachtoffers/oude-gemeente-denekamp/ettema-dominicus/
4. Totenbuch KZ-Gedenkstätte Neuengamme: Dominicus Hylarius Ettema
5. 1. berghapedia.nl: Ettemastraat
   2. Oorlogsmonument Zeddam
   3. Verzet in WO II in Bergh
6. Erelijst van Gevallenen 1940-1945 van de Staten-Generaal
7. Oorlogsgravenstichting.nl