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Limburg 1940-1945,
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Cammaert wrote about Jan Cornips: Heerlen, student. Played an important role in the L.O. district of Heerlen, later also at provincial level. [1]
He studied economics in Tilburg until the Dutch students had to sign a declaration of loyalty to the occupiers, which most did not do. Male objectors had to report for forced labor service in Germany or go into hiding. He had gone to Germany in May 1943 so as not to endanger his parents. He returned to Heerlen in September. [2]
He became the right-hand man of Giel Berix, the district leader of the LO in Heerlen and temporarily also head of the Heerlen subdistrict. He was sought after the liberation of the courier Crijns from the hospital. As the SiPo could not find him, they took his father, Constant Cornips, hostage and shot him in Vught. [2][3]
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