Peter Johannes Jacobs <i>(Peter)</i>
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Peter Johannes Jacobs (Peter)


 25-10-1908 Helden-Beringe      18-06-1945 Mainau (36)
- Aid to People in Hiding L.O. - Local contacts - Helden -



Het Grote Gebod – L.O.

    Peter Jacobs was chairman of the Young Farmers’ Association in Helden-Beringe. During the war years, as a local contact man (duikhoofd) of the LO, he was responsible for the accommodation of about a hundred people in hiding in Beringe and the surrounding area. On August 15, he was arrested by the SiPo as a result of treason.
    He tried to escape, but was hit by a bullet. On September 6, he was deported from camp Vught to Sachsenhausen. After the liberation of the concentration camp, he was taken to a convalescent home on the island of Mainau in Lake Constance [1]
    There he died on June 18, 1945.
    The registry office of the city of Constance, to which the island of Mainau also belongs, answered the following in response to an inquiry by the Oorlogsgravenstichting on March 15, 1955, about the place of burial of Peter Jacobs:
    The body was exhumed in the fall of 1945 by the commissioner of the French occupation and buried in the French cemetery in Constance. On March 12, 1949, the corpse was exhumed again and transferred to France for burial by the French Occupation. [2]
    See for Im Memoriam cards the archive of the local history society in Helden [3] and the Oorlogsgravenstichting. [5]
    He is listed in the “Erelijst 1940-1945” (Honor Roll of the Dutch Parliament). [4]

    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
      6. De Landelijke Organisatie voor hulp aan onderduikers • VIII-IX, p.603
    2. Archief Oorlogsgravenstichting (@ Nationaal archief), Dossier Peter Jacobs • #8#19
    3. bidprentjes Helden
    4. Erelijst 1940-1945
    5. Oorlogsgravenstichting.nl