Johannes Hubertus Hendriks <i>(Jan)</i>
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Johannes Hubertus Hendriks is listed in the Resistance Memorial on the
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Johannes Hubertus Hendriks (Jan)


 07-05-1905 Maastricht      27-01-1943 kamp Vught (37)
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Oorlogsgravenstichting

    Jan Hendriks was a pavement worker and worked in a pigment factory. [1]
    In 1939, he ran for the Communist Party of the Netherlands (CPN) for the Maastricht City Council. [2]
    He was a member of the resistance group De Vonk: Printing and distribution of clandestine literature. In 1940 he was arrested for the first time. The V-man (spy) Andreas Engwirda put the SiPo on the trail of the Boosten brothers and of a list with the names of the distributors of the magazine De Vonk. Twenty-seven of them were arrested, nine CPN members on September 15, 1942, including Johan Hendriks, and Chris Heuts. [3][4]
    He died on January 27, 1943 in Camp Vught. According to struikelsteentjes-maastricht.nl [5.2] he was buried in the Ereveld (Field of Honor) Cemetery in Loenen, but the other sources don’t mention this. In the National Memorial Kamp Vught there are ash pits [6.2] behind the crematorium where the ashes are resting of those who were cremated there. This crematorium was put into operation at the end of 1943.
    All the dead who had already been buried before the crematorium was put into operation were exhumed and their remains cremated. The ashes were first collected in pits on the grounds of the crematorium, and later two ash pits were put into operation for this purpose behind the crematorium. A memorial service is now held at this site every year on May 4. [6.1]
    There is a stumbling stone for him in front of his last home, Lochterstraat 12, Maastricht. [5.1]
    See also the archives of the CPN in Limburg. [7]
    He is listed in the “Erelijst 1940-1945” (Honor Roll of the Dutch Parliament). [8]

    Footnotes

    1. zinkwitfabriek
    2. huygens instituut Rapporten Centrale Inlichtingendienst 1919-1940
    3. Dr. F. Cammaert, Het Verborgen Front – Geschiedenis van de georganiseerde illegaliteit in de provincie Limburg tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Doctorale scriptie 1994, Groningen
      10. De C.P.N. en de illegaliteit, p.995 ff.
    4. Nationaal Monument Kamp Vught Hendriks, Johannes Hubertus
    5. struikelsteentjes-maastricht.nl
      1. Stolperstein Lochterstraat 12, Maastricht
      2. Biogr. Jan Hendriks
    6. Kamp Vught
      1. Inleiding
      2. Asputten
    7. ARCH00347.148 Image 38-40
    8. Erelijst 1940-1945
    9. Oorlogsgravenstichting.nl