Eugène Alphonse Georges van den Boorn <i>(Eugène)</i>
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Eugène Alphonse Georges van den Boorn (Eugène)


 04-07-1911 Maastricht      05-11-1944 Effeld, Kr. Geilenkirchen (33)
- The clergy - Aid to People in Hiding L.O. - Posterholt -



Maastrichtse Gevelstenen

    Eugène van den Boorn came from Gronsveld, near Maastricht [1] and during the occupation, he was rector in Posterholt near Roermond. He was a member of the L.O in Roermond. [2 p.614]
    In late October, Rector Van den Boorn strongly protested against the looting of cattle and the transportation of men to Germany as slaves. He argued, that the German action was contrary to human and international law. The lieutenant E. Heyermann from Cologne, who was billeted with Van den Boorn, was not amused. The two did not get along. The lieutenant used the protest as a pretext to tackle his host. In doing so, Heyermann and his henchmen acted exceptionally violently. In the evening of October 28, 1944, they beat up the rector in a bestial manner and locked him in the basement of his home. Then they held a slumber party in the residence and took everything of their liking. At night, four Gestapo members, including Lammertz, brought the badly mauled Van den Boorn to Effeld. Heyermann and his entourage brought the most improbable accusations against the rector. He was said to have been in possession of a secret transmitter, ammunition and a false stamp. On November 1, Van den Boorn had to appear before a hastily convoked Kriegsgericht (military court). The same day, on Lammertz’s orders, he was executed with five German deserters at the Effeld cemetery. [2 p.632]
    Wilhelm Lammertz, the commander of this Gestapo command in Effeld, just over the border near Herkenbosch, also had the resistance fighters Pierre Gruijters and Ab Schols shot.
    A. van den Akker s.j. wrote on heiligen.net [3]:
    He protested during the Second World War against the deportation of people and the theft of livestock by the German occupiers. He called this a violation of international law and humanity. On Sunday, October 29, 1944, the Feast of Christ the King, he was arrested. That morning he had preached on the words of Jesus, ‘My kingdom is not of this world.’ That evening he was taken home and locked in his cellar while the slurring soldiers drank his wine. A little later they picked Rector van den Boorn out of the cellar, took him to the German village of Effelt, sentenced him to death in a show trial and executed the sentence the same day. Rector van den Boorn was neither canonized nor beatified.
    He is listed in the “Erelijst 1940-1945” (Honor Roll of the Dutch Parliament). [4]

    Footnotes

    1. https://www.postert.nl/Journaal/wist_u.htm
    2. Dr. F. Cammaert, Het Verborgen Front – Geschiedenis van de georganiseerde illegaliteit in de provincie Limburg tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Doctorale scriptie 1994, Groningen
      6. De Landelijke Organisatie voor hulp aan onderduikers • p.614 • p.632
    3. heiligen.net
    4. Erelijst 1940-1945
    5. Oorlogsgravenstichting.nl
    6. https://www.4en5mei.nl/oorlogsmonumenten/zoeken/1747/posterholt-monument-voor-rector-e-a-g-van-den-boorn