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Jacob Halbe Veenstra (Jacob)

The parents of concrete worker Jacob Veenstra were from Leeuwarden. He himself was married to Helena Schobbe, born in Maastricht [1#2] and lived there with her. Jacob had already (probably voluntarily) worked at the Dalli-Werke in Stolberg (near Aachen) from September 11, 1941 [1#5], but it is not stated, for how long.
Records are missing for the time in between, until Jacob ends up on the German North Sea island of Helgoland. [2][3]
There were already Soviet prisoners of war there, who had tried, to escape. They had to build bunkers there. On "Zwangsarbeit auf Helgoland" we read: [4]

In 1944, hundreds of political prisoners - so-called “Gestapo prisoners” – from the Netherlands, Belgium and France followed. Most of them refused to be sent to work to the Reich. Some had gone into hiding, others tried to stay in their homeland with forged papers.
Many Dutch were brought to Helgoland via assembly centers such as the camp Amersfoort in the Netherlands, as well as via the island of Norderney, others came via Stade and Cuxhaven. A larger group from the Onstwedde area in the Netherlands was transported to Helgoland via Windschoten and Delfzijl. They were housed in the north-east of the island, suffering from hunger and brutal treatment. Some died of it, others were shot. They called Helgoland “Hellenland”. (= Hell’s Land).

We may conclude from this, that Jacob had become a forced work refuser. Because of his training as a concrete worker [1#2][6], the Nazis could of course make good use of him when building bunkers.

Footnotes

1. nationaalarchief.nl, Dossier Jacob Veenstra • #2 • #5
2. Open Street Map Helgoland • Karte Zwangs­ar­beit auf Hel­go­land
3. Hel­go­land Wikipedia • Nederlands • Deutsch • English • Français • Português
4. För­der­ver­ein Ge­gen das Ver­ges­sen – Spu­ren­su­che im Kreis Pin­ne­berg und Umgebung 1933-1945 e.V. Zwangs­ar­beit auf Hel­go­land
5. Oorlogsgravenstichting.nl
6. http://www.maastrichtsegevelstenen.nl/0.OORLOG/oorlog2c-verzet.htm