Sevenum
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Sevenum

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Sevenum was a “hotbed of resistance” according to the SiPo, the security police in Maastricht. A headquarters was established on the farm “Rust Roest” of the Groot family. Numerous people in hiding, including more than a hundred Jews, found shelter in Sevenum. According to the manipulated harvest figures, officially there were constantly crop failures. In reality, shiploads of grain from the land between the Meuse River and the Peel marshes were distributed throughout the country to those in hiding and others who needed it. But the raids did not uncover anything at first because there was a well-functioning warning system. There was a secret telephone connection between Venlo and Den Bosch, which the L.O. could also use. In Sevenum itself there was a tripod from which a piece of rail was suspended. When it was struck, a high-pitched screeching sound was heard. In this way, one always knew in time when a raiding party was approaching.
The first major raid by the Sipo took place on April 5, 1944, as a result of the activities of NSB man W. Engels. His regular letters to the German authorities were intercepted each time at the post office. A resister from Helden visited him, dressed in a German uniform, to find out what he knew and to appease him. This did not succeed, and in the raid of April 5, 1944, Nitsch c.s. arrested twenty-three people, mainly on his instructions. While the investigation was in progress, a resident of Sevenum, for the purpose of intimidation, beat Engels so severely that the latter lost an eye. After he got back on his feet, he continued spying in Sevenum as usual. But not for long. It has never been fully clarified by what accident he died. Several more raids would follow.
(Source: Het Verborgen Front – Geschiedenis van de georganiseerde illegaliteit in de provincie Limburg tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog (History of the organized resistance in the province of Limburg during the Second World War). Dissertation 1994 by Fred Cammaert.
Chapter VIb, VIII.2.5. Rayon Sevenum.)
The greatest misery however came towards the end of the occupation with the church raid.
In Sevenum the monument ‘Sporen die bleven’ (Traces that remained) bears the inscription:
In the fall of 1944, in the region between Maas and Peel, over 3,000 boys and men were arrested by the Nazis in raids and deported to Germany for forced labor.
These events cost 120 men their lives and caused a lasting wound among the survivors and those left at home. From Sevenum, 326 people were deported in the church raid on 8 October 1944.
Of those, 5 did not survive the war.

More about occupation and resistance in the region of Maas & Peel

Sevenum is the birthplace of Henri Vullinghs (1883-1945), the unforgotten refugee helper and parish priest of Grubbenvorst.


Liberated: 1944-11-22
Wikipedia NL: Sevenum#Tweede_Wereldoorlog

All the fallen resistance people in Limburg

Sevenum – 10 pers.

Baeten,
Jozef
∗ 1915-05-03
Sevenum
† 1945-05-07
Salzgitter-Barum
- Forced Labor - Sevenum -

Jos Baeten was a farmer. He was arrested in Kronenberg in the church raid of October 8, 1944.
The Dienst Identificatie en Berging …
wall: right, row 14-01
Billekens,
Pieter Hubert
Piet
∗ 1900-04-19
Sevenum
† 1945-02-02
Salzgitter-Drütte
- Forced Labor - Sevenum -

Piet Billekens was a farmer. He was arrested in Kronenberg at the church raid on October 8, 1944.
The Dienst Identificatie en Berging …
wall: right, row 14-02
Burgt, van der
Antoon
∗ 1889-08-08
Deurne
† 1945-01-30
Salzgitter-Watenstedt
- Forced Labor - Sevenum -

Tony van der Burgt was a track worker at the Dutch railroad, hence the memorial plaque at Hegelsom station, in the municipality of Horst a/d Maas, in the immediate vicinity of Sevenum.

wall: right, row 15-01
Franssen,
Lodewijk
∗ 1898-01-02
Sevenum
† 1944-11-22
Salzgitter-Watenstedt
- Forced Labor - Sevenum -

Lodewijk Franssen was a shopkeeper. On Sunday, October 18, 1944, a so-called church raid took also place in Kronenberg and Sevenum: all men in the …
wall: right, row 13-05
Groot,
Simon Petrus
Simon “Jan”
∗ 1924-05-15
Alkmaar
† 1944-09-20
Sevenum
- Initial resistance - Ordedienst (O.D.) - Sevenum -

Simon Petrus Groot was an office worker. The farm Rust Roest of the Groot family in Sevenum was a stronghold of resistance activities during the war. His cousin, also named Simon, was the …
wall: right, row 14-03
Groot,
Simon Stendert
Simon
∗ 1911-02-28
Sevenum
† 1944-09-20
Sevenum
- Aid to People in Hiding L.O. - Sevenum -

Simon Groot was a farmer. He belonged to the LO-Sevenum and possibly the OD. His farm Rust Roest (Rest Rusts) in Sevenum was a hotbed of resistance during the Second World War. People in …

wall: right, row 14-04
Hoeymakers /Hoeijmakers,
Hendrik Hubert
Hendrik
∗ 1885-02-18
Sevenum
† 1945-03-11
Salzgitter-Reppner
- Aid to People in Hiding L.O. - Sevenum - Forced Labor -

Hendrik Hoeymakers was a farmer and married to Maria Catharina Jakobs, born on September 7, 1886. [1#2]
His surname is spelled Hoeymakers by relatives and acquaintances, but many …

wall: right, row 15-02
Hoeymakers /Hoeijmakers,
Jozef Mathieu
Jeu
∗ 1924-03-09
Sevenum
† 1944-10-08
Sevenum
- Aid to People in Hiding L.O. - BS (Domestic Forces) - Sevenum -

Mathieu Hoeymakers, abbreviated Jeu, is usually referred to as Jozef Mathijs Hoeijmakers in official documents. His father was Hendrik Hoeymakers, …

This person is not (yet?) listed on the walls of the chapel.
Roodbeen,
Peter (Piet)
∗ 1887-12-31
Sevenum
† 1945-02-18
Salzgitter-Watenstedt
- Sevenum - Forced Labor -

Pieter Jan Roodbeen was a farmer. He was arrested in Kronenberg in the church raid of October 8, 1944.
wall: right, row 15-03
Tielen,
Gerard
∗ 1922-08-23
Sevenum
† 1945-05-06
Dachau
- Sevenum -

On February 9, 1945, Gerard Herman Maria Tielen was taken from Vaihingen (or Natzweiler?) to Dachau: 140.811[ITS 1.1.6.1/0048/0180]: 1 …
wall: right, row 15-04