Jean-Hubert Keibeck <i>(Jan)</i>
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Jean-Hubert Keibeck (Jan)


 16-02-1918 Maastricht      06-08-1944 Brussel (26)
- Secret Army (B) - Maastricht -



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    Jean-Hubert Keibeck was a sergeant in the resistance movement Secret Army, also called B.N.B. (Belgische Nationale Beweging), sector Rekem, Limburg. The B.N.B. prepared for the arrival of the Allies in the summer of 1944. The objective was to attack the German army from behind. To this purpose, weapons were dropped by the Allies. Jean-Hubert Keibeck was seriously wounded and arrested at Rekem on the night of June 23-24, 1944, when they loaded these weapons onto a ship on a canal called the Zuid-Willemsvaart.

    Mathieu Rutten wrote about it:
    Shortly after 1 a.m. 15 containers came down and were taken to the Kikmolen in Opgrimbie and the Oude Hoef between Maasmechelen and Opgrimbie. During the night of June 24-25, 1944, the resistance fighters of Rekem and the surrounding area would burden themselves with loading the ship. On Saturday evening, June 24, at about 11 p.m., soldiers of the German Navy stationed in Maasmechelen and the Sipo/SD, with the support of Lode Huygen, commander of the Black Brigade (Belgian SS), entered the village of Rekem to carry out a brutal raid. Jean Keibeck, who was on guard near the steamer Henri, was seriously wounded and arrested. He was taken to Brugmann Hospital in Brussels, where he died on August 6, 1944. His comrade-in-arms, Camille Hoste, who was also standing guard at the canal, managed to escape. [1]

    How the Germans were informed of this action is not told.
    Jean-Hubert is buried next to his father Frans Keibeck, who was also in the resistance, in the municipal cemetery Gauwakkerstraat 26, 3621 Rekem. On his grave cross he is called Jan. [3]

    Footnotes

    1. Mathieu Rutten, Markante feiten in Limburg tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog pp. 51-52
    2. Open Street Map Rekem
    3. https://www.tracesofwar.com/sights/34014/Belgian-War-Grave-Municipal-Cemetery-Rekem.htm
    4. https://www.maastrichtsegevelstenen.nl/0.OORLOG/oorlog2c-verzet.htm