The fallen resistance people in Limburg
pers.Valkenburg 1940-1945

Constant Cornips
(Constant Jozef Ernest)

Het Grote Gebod – L.O.

More complicated need of clothing used to be regulated by the director of the municipal social welfare office, Mr Cornips, with me. He was very competent for this due to his function. It was predominating about suits, clothes, coats etc. for families being hidden as a whole (primarily Jews) and suits and coats for prisoners of war (primarily Frenchmen) and pilots. [4]
The son of this Constant Cornips was Jan Cornips, the secretary of district leader Berix of the L.O. in Heerlen. Because the SiPo Maastricht searched for him but did not find him, Constant was taken away. He was executed on Dolle Dinsdag ( Mad Tuesday) [1] in Kamp Vught.

Vught • Fusilladeplaats • Former execution site • Ancien site d’exécution



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Footnotes

1. Dolle Dinsdag, Wikipedia • Nederlands • Deutsch • English • Français
2. Marcel Krutzen: Constant Joseph Ernest Cornips (1895-1944), een man die zijn leven opofferde voor ‘God en Vaderland’
3. Oorlogsgravenstichting.nl
4. More in our story Resistance in Valkenburg
5. Wikipedia NL: Constant Cornips