Guillaume Duijkers <i>(Giel)</i>
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Guillaume Duijkers (Giel)


 07-12-1896 Meerssen      23-02-1945 KZ Sachsenhausen, Oranienburg (48)
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    Giel Duijkers was a district official at PLEM (Provinciale Limburgse Electriciteits­maatschappij, Electricity Supply Company) [1#2]. He was married, was duikhoofd (diver’s chief, local contact) of the LO in Heer (Maastricht), and also worked for the underground newspaper Vrij Nederland.
    For a detailed account of the events below, see struikelsteentjes-maastricht.nl. [2]
    On July 4, 1944, the chief constable of the police, A.B. Reuten, rang the doorbell and asked Mrs. Duijkers if he could use the telephone. Inside the house he saw some copies of the banned newspaper Trouw on the table and managed to gain her trust. She did not know that Reuten was a fanatical National Socialist. She asked him if he would be willing to temporarily take in H. Oppenheim, a Jewish man in hiding. He agreed, picked up the person in hiding later, and immediately delivered him to the SiPo, who interrogated him under torture. Then he tried to find out from whom she had received the illegal newspapers and who was involved in helping the Jews. In the course of July, the Sipo arrested two distributors of the newspaper Trouw, J.W. van Heyst and F.A. Erkamp from Heer, as well as the helper of Jews, J.H.M. Speetjens, and the couple Guillaume Duijkers and Anna Duijkers-Debije. Van Heyst and Erkamp were released after a few weeks. Duijkers died in Sachsenhausen on February 23, 1945, and Speetjens in Mauthausen on March 5, 1945. [3]
    The arrest of Guillaume Duijkers and probably his wife Anna, as well as the other victims of Reuten, took place on July 7, 1944. [4]
    According to this source, his call name was Gel, but this is probably a misspelling.
    Date of departure from Vught to Germany: September 3, 1944 [1#2]
    On April 18, 1958, Duijker’s widow wrote that she too had been severely tortured by the SiPo in Maastricht. About Reuten she wrote: But don’t you find it very sad that such a fellow is free again? In Amsterdam the sentence was 20 years and in Leeuwarden 25 years and (that he) is now free is very sad. [1#3]
    On November 27, 1961, she moved to Tenessee (USA), where her son L.G.H. Duijkers already had been living since 1957. [1#6]
    According to the stumbling stone at Dorpstraat 145, Maastricht-Heer he was born in 1898, but this too must be a transcription error. [5]
    His name is on the Monument Pro Patria, Raadhuisplein, 6226GN, Maastricht-Heer. [6]
    He is listed in the “Erelijst 1940-1945” (Honor Roll of the Dutch Parliament). [7]

    Footnotes

    1. Archief Oorlogsgravenstichting (@ Nationaal archief),
      Dossier Giel Duijkers • #2#3#6
    2. struikelsteentjes-maastricht.nl LO-Heer & Giel Duijkers
    3. Dr. F. Cammaert, Het Verborgen Front – Geschiedenis van de georganiseerde illegaliteit in de provincie Limburg tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Doctorale scriptie 1994, Groningen
      6. De Landelijke Organisatie voor hulp aan onderduikers • VIII-IX, p.653
    4. forum.mestreechonline.nl Verzetsstrijders Maastricht
    5. Namenlijst struikelsteentjes-maastricht.nl Duijkers Giel
    6. Monument Pro Patria, Raadhuisplein, 6226GN, Maastricht-Heer
    7. Erelijst 1940-1945
    8. Oorlogsgravenstichting.nl
    9. https://www.maastrichtsegevelstenen.nl/0.OORLOG/oorlog2c-verzet.htm