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Francisca Alberta Maria Brinkman-Rohling (Francisca)


 18-01-1875 Dokkum      27-03-1945 Maastricht (70)
- Women in the resistance - Underground Press - Roermond - Initial resistance -

    Francisca Brinkman-Rohling and her husband, 70-year-old notary Herman Brinkman, lived in Roermond [1] and were the parents of Sophie Brinkman.
    About them (and their deeds) we can read in “Het verborgen front” [2] by Dr. Fred Cammaert as follows:
    From September 1944 to January 12, 1945, a typewriter-produced newspaper, called De Postduif, was published in Roermond with news about the Allied advance, taken over from the B.B.C. and Radio Oranje. The producers wanted to inform the population of Roermond, living in cellars, as much as possible about the latest developments on the fronts. De Postduif appeared daily in a circulation of about sixty copies. The producers and distributors included 70-year-old notary H.J.F. Brinkman, his daughter S.M.A.J. de Puniet de Parry-Brinkman, A. Raupp, the engeneer Schlösser and D. Steenmeyer, a person in hiding from The Hague . The Van Leeuwen couple typed the magazine in the apartment of the resister M.A.M. Bouman, who was executed in early May 1943.
    On January 12, 1945, German soldiers found a copy of De Postduif in the apartment of the Brinkman family. The aged notary, his wife and their daughter Sophie were arrested and imprisoned in the Cologne prison, where they wers treated very badly. Herman Brinkman died there on March 5, 1945, his daughter five days later. Ms. Brinkman did not survive the hardships she suffered either.

    Cologne was liberated on March 6, 1945. [3] Her husband had died only one day before, her daughter died a few days later. She herself died on March 27, 1945, in one of the repatriation hospitals in Maastricht of typhus, which she had brought with her from captivity. [1]
    She is buried in the municipal cemetery Kapel in ’t Zand in Roermond, grave 6/219, and is mentioned on the war memorial in Roermond. [4]

    Footnotes

    1. Dossier oorlogsgravenstichting Francisca Alberta Maria Brinkman-Rohling # 12
    2. Dr. Fred Cammaert, Het Verborgen Front - Geschiedenis van de georganiseerde illegaliteit in de provincie Limburg tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog Hoofdstuk XI p. 1093, III.18. De Postduif
    3. WDR 6. März 1945 - Die US-Armee nimmt Köln ein
    4. Oorlogsmonument Roermond

    5. Oorlogsgravenstichting.nl
    6. http://www.maastrichtsegevelstenen.nl/0.OORLOG/oorlog2c-verzet.htm