The fallen resistance people in Limburg

Henk Linssen
(Henricus Ignatius)

Oorlogsdoden Nijmegen

Henricus Ignatius Linssen worked in the distribution office of Nijmegen. He was married to Joanna Maria Elisabeth Teunissen and father of three children. He provided those in hiding with distribution documents ( stamps and cards) and distributed forbidden newspapers. He belonged to the Vrij Nederland group of Nijmegen. On June 29, 1944, he was arrested and transported to the Amersfoort concentration camp via the Arnhem prison. On July 21, 1944, he was executed along with other Nijmegen citizens in Leusden in retaliation for attacks on German soldiers in Nijmegen. He had to dig his own grave on the Heath of Leusden. [1] Linssen was buried after the war until the autumn of 1969 in the cemetery on the Daalseweg (29-1-8) and since then in the field of honor of the cemetery Vredehof [2] in Nijmegen.
The daily De Gelderlander of May 11, 1945 contains an obituary of Henricus Linsen (in the other sources Linssen is spelled with 2 s), residing in Nijmegen, Tooropstraat 195, who "fell as a victim for Nijmegen" in the Amersfoort concentration camp on July 22, 1944. In the same obituary the names of Ernest George van Geuns, Christiaan Canisius Toussaint and J. Joseph Marius Rodriguez are mentioned [4].
He is listed on the memorial in the schoolyard of Canisius College, where he was a student. [5]

Footnotes

1. Eleven imprisoned resistance fighters from Nijmegen killed
2. Municipal cemetery Vredehof, Erehof 18, Nijmegen
3. Funeral card at www.noviomagus.nl B137
4. De Gelderlander, may 11, 1945
5. Monument voor gevallen Canisianen, Canisiuscollege, Berg en Dalseweg 81, 6522 BC, Nijmegen.
6. Oorlogsgravenstichting.nl
7. https://www.oorlogsdodennijmegen.nl/persoon/linssen/16b314cb-cfc8-4491-888d-3ee671065447