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People who played a role during WW2 in and around Valkenburg. Most of them appear in the resistance story about Valkenburg. In that case, click on More in our story Resistance in Valkenburg next to that name.
This list is far from being complete.
Read also 1940-1945 - The Germans killed in action in Valkenburg-Houthem
All over the world, where wars have raged, people build memorials and write names of victims on them. But millions are not listed there. That is what Dwight D. Eisenhower reminds us of. Therefore, his words are rightly quoted on this memorial:
“1939-1945 Millions who didn’t know each others, killed each others for a few, who knew each others but didn’t kill”
Eisenhower was a talented soldier, who therefore became Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe during the Second World War. He later became president of the USA. and began to think more, as this quote shows. In his farewell message to Congress and the Armed Forces on January 17, 1961, he therefore warned of the military-industrial complex.
† ✡ † Jews Holocaust Allied soldiers USA RAF NL sold Verzet initial resistance L.O. K.P. municipality local contacts couriers occasional resistance Gr. Smit people in hiding Valkenburg+ Valkenburg Berg en Terblijt Schin op Geul IJzeren Sibbe Margraten Houthem-St.Gerlach Geulhem Hulsberg Houthem Klimmen Meerssen Heerlen police priests NSB / NSDAP Germans killed in action in Valkenburg-Houthem
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Abraham,
Grete (Margaretha) | ∗ 1900-11-09 Altenkirchen (D) † 1942-08-31 Auschwitz (Oświęcim) | Jew - Valkenburg - war victim - 41 years old. Widow of Arthur Cohen, ∗ 04-04-1892, Dinslaken – ✡ 18-07-1938 Berlin. Berkelstraat 15, Valkenburg. Source: Stichting Struikelstenen … More in our story Resistance in Valkenburg https://yvng.yadvashem.org/nameDetails.html?itemId=1161998 |
Aitchison,
Richard Justin | ∗ 1916-06-29 Onehunga, Auckland † 1945-01-01 Vilt | RAF - Berg en Terblijt - war victim - P/O Richard Justin Aitchison, Pilot, SN NZ429286 Their plane crashed on January 1st, 1945 next to the already liberated hamlet of Vilt, municipality of Berg en Terblijt. |
Baum,
Johanna | ∗ 1896-05-20 Bauchem (D) † 1942-09-07 Auschwitz (Oświęcim) | Jew - Valkenburg - war victim - ⚭ Ferdinand Gottschalk, Neerhem 45, Valkenburg. 46 years old. Source: Stichting Struikelstenen (Foundation Stumbling Blocks) Valkenburg [1], Wikipedia [2] More in our story Resistance in Valkenburg |
Begore,
Quentin K. | ∗ 0000-00-00 † 1944-09-16 Valkenburg | USA, Old Hickory - Valkenburg - war victim - Quentin Begore was one of the six soldiers of the Old Hickory Division who were killed in action during the liberation of Valkenburg and its surroundings. More in our story Resistance in Valkenburg |
Benedik,
Josef | ∗ 1876-01-24 Schimmert † 1943-05-14 Sobibor | Jew - Valkenburg - war victim - ⚭ Bertha Heijser, 67 years old. Source: Stichting Struikelstenen (Foundation Stumbling Blocks) Valkenburg [1], Wikipedia [2] More in our story Resistance in Valkenburg |
Benedik,
Liza | ∗ 1877-12-05 Schimmert † 1943-05-14 Sobibor | Jew - Valkenburg - war victim - 65 years old. Cohabiting sister(-in-law) of Bertha and Josef Benedik-Heijser Source: Stichting Struikelstenen (Foundation Stumbling Blocks) Valkenburg [1], Wikipedia [2] More in our story Resistance in Valkenburg |
Benedik,
Robert | ∗ 1907-05-08 Schimmert † 1943-01-15 Spytkowice | Jew - Valkenburg - war victim - 35 years old. Source: Stichting Struikelstenen (Foundation Stumbling Blocks) Valkenburg [1], Wikipedia [2] More in our story Resistance in Valkenburg |
Benedik,
Rudolf | ∗ 1911-08-03 Valkenburg † 1942-12-31 Spytkowice | Jew - Valkenburg - war victim - Source: Stichting Struikelstenen (Foundation Stumbling Blocks) Valkenburg [1], Wikipedia [2] More in our story Resistance in Valkenburg |
Benedik,
Walter | ∗ 1920-07-14 Valkenburg † 1943-07-02 Sobibor | Jew - Valkenburg - war victim - 22 years old. Son of Bertha and Josef Benedik-Heijser Source: Stichting Struikelstenen (Foundation Stumbling Blocks) Valkenburg [1], Wikipedia [2] More in our story Resistance in Valkenburg |
Berckel,
van Karel Clemens Karel | ∗ 1892-08-19 Delft † 1944-09-05 Kamp Vught | L.O. - K.P. - Heerlen - war victim - Detailed information about the surgeon Karel van Berckel [1.1] can be found on the website of the National Memorial Camp Vught [1.2], where he was murdered. The following is an excerpt from it, unless otherwise indicated, including (colored yellow) some … More in our story Resistance in Valkenburg https://oorlogsgravenstichting.nl/persoon/9721/karel-clemens-van-berckel https://www.nmkampvught.nl/biografieen/1125/ |
Berix,
Jan Willem Giel | ∗ 1907-04-12 Meers † 1945-03-13 Bergen-Belsen | early resistance - L.O. - priest - Heerlen - person in hiding - war victim - Since september 10, 1933, Giel Berix was a kapelaan (in the Netherlands a term for Roman Catholic auxiliary parish priests, vicars. In Belgium they are also called Onderpastoor) at St. Pancratius Church in Heerlen. [4] Giel is a regional call name still very common at that time, standing for … More in our story Resistance in Valkenburg https://oorlogsgravenstichting.nl/persoon/10748/jan-willem-berix |
Blum,
Joseph | ∗ 0000-00-00 † 1944-10-17 Valkenburg | USA, Hell on Wheels - Valkenburg - war victim - Jan Diederenn writes in Mijn oorlog en bevrijding: “Mrs. Huntjens, who was living at the time on Nieuweweg, saw four soldiers being killed when their jeep hit a land mine in a field at the bottom of the Emmaberg on Sunday morning … More in our story Resistance in Valkenburg |
Brennan,
Martin | ∗ 0000-00-00 † 1945-01-01 Vilt | RAF - Berg en Terblijt - war victim - Sgt Martin Brennan (Geburtsdatum?), air gunner Their Avro 683 Lancaster III crashed on January 1st, 1945 next to the already liberated hamlet of Vilt, municipality of Berg en Terblijt. [2] |