The fallen resistance people in Limburg

Willem Hubert Heber (Willem)

Het Grote Gebod – L.O.

Farmer and earthworker Willem Hubert Heber, member of LO-Heel put his radio at the disposal of brothers Sylvester and Joost Berden, who needed it to collect news for the underground bulletin Daalzichtse Berichten Dienst. His sons helped distribute the bulletin.
He built a hiding place for six people near his farm. He began working with contractor and carpenter P.H.M. Linssen, and so more shelters were created in the woods in order to cope with the sharp increase in the number of people in hiding in 1943. The inhabitants were not all careful; one of them, for example, kept a diary. This was the undoing of Willem Heber and Mathijs Rutten. They were arrested on September 17. [1][2]
the LO and the OD abandoned the idea of camps for those in hiding in central and northern Limburg. See A military training camp for people in hiding.
The OGS informed the family on May 20, 1964, that they had been unable to find out anything about the circumstances of Willem’s death. [3#7]
Known is however, that he was arrested at home at 6:30 a.m. and via the SiPo/SD in Maastricht was successively imprisoned in the concentration camps of Amersfoort, Vught, Dachau and Mauthausen. [3#13]
This person is listed in the “Erelijst 1940-1945” (Honor Roll of the Dutch Parliament). [4]

Footnotes

1. Dr. F. Cammaert, Het Verborgen Front
   VIb De Landelijke Organisatie voor hulp aan onderduikers, pp. 608–610
2. Drs L.E.M.A. van Hommerich, Het Grote Gebod, dl.1.1, De LO, Kampen 1951, p. 327
3. Archief Oorlogsgravenstichting, Dossier Willem Hubert Heber • #7 • #13
4. Erelijst 1940-1945
5. Oorlogsgravenstichting.nl