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Christiaan Canisius Toussaint is not (yet?) listed on a wall of the chapel.
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Christ Toussaint
∗ 21-10-1896 Nijmegen † 21-07-1944 Leusden (47)
- Nijmegen - Limburg + - Ondergrondse pers -
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Christ Toussaint
(Christiaan Canisius)
∗ 21-10-1896 Nijmegen † 21-07-1944 Leusden (47)
- Nijmegen - Limburg + - Ondergrondse pers -
Christ Toussaint was a department head at the E.R.K. (Eerste Rooms Katholieke Levensverzekering Maatschappij). He distributed radio news from London and forbidden newspapers and supported the resistance financially. [1] We owe many biographical details to his daughter C. Beukering-Toussaint. [4]
On June 29, 1944, he was arrested with his neighbor Ernest van Geuns, and on July 21, 1944, he and seven other Nijmegen citizens were executed on the heath of Leusden in retaliation for attacks on German soldiers, having previously dug their own graves. [2]
He was reburied in the municipal cemetery Vredehof [3], Erehof 20 [5].
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