Chris Heuts
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Chris Heuts


 12-06-1888 Meerssen      24-02-1943 Kamp Vught (54)
- Underground Press - Communists & Sympathizers - Maastricht -



Maastrichtse Gevelstenen

    Photo: Archive of the CPN Limburg [1]

    Chris Heuts was a plasterer. Distributor of the magazine De Vonk. At struikelsteentjes-maastricht.nl we can read: As a communist he participated in the 1935 elections to the provincial parliament of Limburg in the constituency of Heerlen. He stood in 13th place, the only communist from Maastricht. At that time Chris Heuts was chairman of the Communist Party of the Netherlands (CPN), Maastricht chapter. [2.1]
    Two arrests ended with his release. The third time it went differently. The V-man (spy) Andreas Engwirda put the SiPo on the trail of the Boosten brothers and thus to a list with the names of the distributors of De Vonk. Twenty-seven distributors were arrested. On September 15, 1942, nine members of the CPN, including Johan Hendriks and Chris Heuts. After his arrest, he was taken to the Amersfoort concentration camp. Subsequently to Kamp Vught, officially called Herzogenbusch concentration camp. [3]
    There he died probably of a heart attack. [2.2]
    He is listed in the “Erelijst 1940-1945” (Honor Roll of the Dutch Parliament). [5]

    Footnotes

    1. Archief CPN Limburg Image 35-37
    2. struikelsteentjes-maastricht.nl
      1. Biogr. Chris Heuts (pdf)
      2. Stolperstein Chris Heuts
    3. Kamp Vught / SS-Konzentrationslager Herzogenbusch
      1. Wikipedia • NederlandsDeutschEnglishFrançaisEspañol
      2. Website Nationaal Monument Kamp VughtNederlandsDeutschEnglishFrançais
    4. Archief Oorlogsgravenstichting (@ Nationaal archief),
      Dossier Chris Heuts #9
    5. Erelijst 1940-1945
    6. Oorlogsgravenstichting.nl