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Jean Slots
(Petrus Johannes Hubertus)
∗ 24-11-1912 Baexem † 02-03-1988 Wanssum (75)
- The clergy - Initial resistance - Aid to Jews - Aid to escaped POW’s - Pilots’ helpers - Survivors - Grubbenvorst - Weert -
- Cammaert, A. P. M. (1994). Het verborgen front: Geschiedenis van de georganiseerde illegaliteit in de provincie Limburg tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen.
1. Hoofdst. 4, p.249
2. Hoofdst. 0, pp.18ff: Introductie van vaak genoemde personen - collectie.verzetsmuseum.org Henri Vullings
- https://verzetsmonumentweert.nl Kapelaan Jean Slots
- openarchieven.nl Jean Slots
During the occupation, Jean Slots was vicar to parish priest Henri Vullinghs in Grubbenvorst and later in Weert. [1.1]
In collaboration with other clergymen, escape routes were set up in the course of 1941 for pilots and escaped prisoners of war to flee. Grubbenvorst was (possibly as a starting point) a link in a chain of places on an escape route that led from North Limburg via Belgium to France and ended in Nancy. [2]
There they were taken over by Pierre Timmermans (nicknamed Père Tim). He was a professor at the seminary for Roman Catholic priests and vicar at the parish of Saint-Joseph in Nancy.
Cammaert writes about him: Pioneer of the resistance. Started early on to help prisoners of war with reverend H. Vullinghs from Grubbenvorst. Jews, Allied airmen and people in hiding soon followed. He spent some time in German captivity, but continued where he had left off after his release. [1.2]
On verzetsmonumentweert.nl it says in more detail: Vicar Jean Slots lived at Hoogstraat no. 4 in Weert. He was a resistance pioneer who had been actively involved in resistance work since the early years of the war. In Grubbenvorst, together with rev. Henri Vullinghs, he helped prisoners of war, Jews, crashed Allied airmen and people in hiding. After arriving in Weert in the course of 1942, he and his colleague Harry Adams took the initiative to help people in hiding at the beginning of May 1943 due to the attitude of the diocese of Roermond against the labor deployment proclaimed by the occupying powers. The organized resistance, the Landelijke Onderduikorganisatie (LO), was formed from May to June 1943. Jean Slots was arrested in August 1943 and interned in Amersfoort concentration camp. He wrote a book about this time in Amersfoort. After his release in March 1944, he resumed his resistance activities. [3]
Jean Slots’ last position was parish priest in Wanssum. [4]
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