The fallen resistance people in Limburg

Evert Janssens
(Everhardus Lippe Jelle)

oudstrijders-geleen.nl …

Evert Janssens was an office worker at State Mine Maurits in Geleen and lived at Annastraat 8. [2#3]. He had moved from Schaesberg to Geleen on August 30, 1941.
Cammaert donne les informations suivantes à son sujet : Together with C. van der Woude, he reproduced in the office at least one hundred copies of each issue of the resistance magazine “Het Vrije Volk”, which was particularly popular with the miners.
On October 23, 1941, P.H.E. Paes, another member of the group that produced and distributed “Het Vrije Volk”, was betrayed by his sister-in-law, M.C. Kusters-Raven, and arrested the same day. Within a few days, his resistance was broken. Between October 27 and November 5, Nitsch succeeded in arresting twenty-four members of the Geleen distribution group, including Evert Janssens. [1]

Only on January 29, 1943 he was deregistered from this municipality as unknown moved.. [2#4]
However, he had already been taken to Germany from the Maastricht prison on November 3, 1941. [2#2]
But where did he end up? There was no concentration camp in Siegburg, but there was a prison. And from 1939 until the end of the war, several thousand foreign forced laborers were employed in Siegburg’s factories and mills. More than 400 of them perished. [3]
On the plaque of the war memorial in Geleen Lindenheuvel [4] is written Janssens I. Could this mean Jelle?
In 1955 his remains were moved from the Siegburg North Cemetery to the Dutch field of honor at the Stoffeler Cemetery in Düsseldorf-Oberbilk. There lie 1,230 Dutch war dead. [5]
On oudstrijders-geleen.nl he is listed in the category Fallen in the Resistance, [8]
Everhardus Lippe Jelle ( Evert ) Janssens is listed in the Erelijst 1940-1945 (Honor Roll of the Dutch Parliament). [6]

Footnotes

1. Dr. F. Cammaert, Het Verborgen Front – Geschiedenis van de georganiseerde illegaliteit in de provincie Limburg tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Doctorale scriptie 1994, Groningen
   11. Illegale pers, p.1077
2. Archief Oorlogsgravenstichting, Dossier Everhardus Lippe Jelle Janssens • #2 • #3 • #4
3. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegburg#20._Jahrhundert
4. Plaquette van het oorlogsmonument in Geleen Lindenheuvel
5. Nederlands ereveld te Düsseldorf-Oberbilk
6. Erelijst 1940-1945
7. Oorlogsgravenstichting.nl
8. https://oudstrijders-geleen.nl/gevallen-in-het-verzet/