The fallen resistance people in Limburg

Everhardus Lippe Jelle Janssens (Evert)

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Evert Janssens was an office worker at State Mine Maurits in Geleen and lived at Annastraat 8. [1#3]. He had moved from Schaesberg to Geleen on August 30, 1941. Only on January 29, 1943 he was deregistered from this municipality as unknown moved.. [1#4]
However, he had already been taken to Germany from the Maastricht prison on November 3, 1941. [1#2]
But where did he end up? There was no concentration camp in Siegburg, but there was a prison. And from 1939 until the end of the war, several thousand foreign forced laborers were employed in Siegburg’s factories and mills. More than 400 of them perished. [2]
On the plaque of the war memorial in Geleen Lindenheuvel [3] is written Janssens I. Could this mean Jelle?
In 1955 his remains were moved from the Siegburg North Cemetery to the Dutch field of honor at the Stoffeler Cemetery in Düsseldorf-Oberbilk. There lie 1,230 Dutch war dead. [4]
On oudstrijders-geleen.nl he is listed in the category Fallen in the Resistance, [7] but they do not say what this resistance consisted of. Until we know more about him, we call this unorganized resistance.
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Everhardus Lippe Jelle ( Evert ) Janssens is listed in the Erelijst 1940-1945 (Honor Roll of the Dutch Parliament). [5]

Footnotes

1. Archief Oorlogsgravenstichting, Dossier Everhardus Lippe Jelle Janssens • #2 • #3 • #4
2. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegburg#20._Jahrhundert
3. Plaquette van het oorlogsmonument in Geleen Lindenheuvel
4. Nederlands ereveld te Düsseldorf-Oberbilk
5. Erelijst 1940-1945
6. Oorlogsgravenstichting.nl
7. https://oudstrijders-geleen.nl/gevallen-in-het-verzet/