The fallen resistance people in Limburg

Jet van Oijen
(Hendrika Johanna)

Jet van Oijen was engaged to Sittard resistance fighter Harrie Tobben, who went into hiding in Baexem in June 1942 on the advice of police friends. She moved from Sittard to Tilburg on December 10, 1942, where she worked with Coba Pulskens.
On Aug. 6, Tobben, Van Oijen and Paul Gulikers, also a resistance fighter, travel with four pilots to Apeldoorn. From a transit house, the pilots were then taken to England. Tobben and Gulikers would also go with them to England. Van Oijen is asked to return to Tilburg; later, when Harrie goes to England, she can say goodbye to him. Upon arrival at the transit house, however, Tobben, Gulikers and the four pilots are arrested by the Sipo, and shortly thereafter the entire Bongaerts group falls into German hands. A few days after her return to Tilburg, the V-man (secret agent for the Germans) Vastenhout comes to tell her that Tobben and Gulikers have meanwhile left for England. Because they don’t immediately arrest Van Oijen, the Germans can continue their infiltration into the pilot escape lines for the time being. [2]

Arrival at Dachau Oct. 15, 1944, liberated at Dachau April 29, 1945. [3]
See also the Englandspiel. [4]

Jet van Oijen & Harrie Tobben
Regionaal Archief Tilburg: Jet van Oijen met verloofde Harrie_Tobben

Footnotes

1. Cammaert, A. P. M. (1994). Het verborgen front: Geschiedenis van de georganiseerde illegaliteit in de provincie Limburg tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen.
   Hoofdst. 0, pp.18ff: Introductie van vaak genoemde personen
2. wikimiddenbrabant.nl Jet van Oijen
3. verzetsmuseum.org Hendrika Johanna (Jetty) van Oyen
4. Englandspiel