1940-1945. The resistance in the dutch province of Limburg

Sittard

The resistance in Sittard was led unchallengedly by M.P.J.M. Corbeij. He had been mayor of Broeksittard from 1934 until his dishonorable resignation in 1941. Before the war he had also worked for military intelligence. He was not well received by some because he was a teetotaler. [1]
Sittard formally belonged to the district of Heerlen, but for security reasons they cooperated as little as possible with other resistance organizations, except occasionally with the K.P. of Heerlen, as in the raid on a C.C.D. warehouse in Heerlen in the spring of 1944 and in the raid on the distribution office in Valkenburg, when the K.P. Sittard made its fire truck available, that was stolen in Geleen and armored in Matrai’s workshop.
Thanks to their extremely prudent approach, not a single resister from the circle around Corbeij fell into the hands of the Germans, which did not alter the fact that the Sittard organization had to watch helplessly as the security police (SiPo) from Maastricht, in cooperation with Dutch collaborators of the Landwacht and Arbeidscontroledienst who were rounded up from all over the province, carried out a raid against the hiders on July 28, 1944. Every neighborhood in Sittard was combed by an arrest team.
Relatively little remains about the resistance in Sittard.
Some things can be found in the book of Cammaert in Het verborgen front (The Hidden Front), chapter VIb, De Landelijke Organisatie voor hulp aan onderduikers, § VIII.6. District Sittard. p. 686-691 [2]
See also Dolf Simonis, oorlog en verzet in Sittard [3]. Simonis led the combat group (Knokploeg) in Sittard. His courier was his 10-year-old daughter Jeanne, who also knew where her father hid his weapons, in case he was arrested.
See also the list of war victims on the war memorial in Sittard [4]

Liberated: 1944-09-18