![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
Limburg 1940-1945,
Main Menu
The fallen resistance people in Limburg
![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
During the German invasion on May 10, 1940, Herman Kroezen was a professional sergeant in the Dutch army. After their return from captivity, a job creation program was set up for these people, the Nederlandse Opbouwdienst. [1]
This gave them the opportunity to work for the police, fire department or other services. Herman opted for the police. He was last stationed with the police in Weert. At least three of the police officers there were active in the support organization for people in hiding, the LO. Although he himself was not a member of the organized resistance, he supported it wherever he could, which eventually became his undoing. Together with policeman K.W.L.A. Wering, chief A. Josephs and gendarme Lambert Dusink he was called to account by the SiPo in Maastricht because in Weert the resister Dorssers had escaped. [2]
From Maastricht he was transported to camp Vught [3], later to Sachsenhausen concentration camp near Oranienburg [4] and eventually to Bergen-Belsen, where he still died after the liberation of the camp. [5]
On brabantsegesneuvelden.nl we read about his end:
Somewhere during May 1945 he probably died of starvation edema. Little is known with certainty about the exact circumstances of his death. His body was also never found; most likely it was cremated with the remains of other prisoners or deposited in a mass grave. After the liberation of Bergen-Belsen, this was done on a large scale to prevent the spread of typhus (which had claimed 14,000 victims by then). [8]
His last known address was Griendtsveen F45 in Horst. [5]
Herman Kroezen’s name is also on the war memorial in his birthplace Boxmeer. [6]
This person is identical to the Herman Kroezen, who is mentioned on the right wall as a victim from Weert.
Footnotes