1940-1945. The resistance in the dutch province of Limburg

Eijsden

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Eijsden is a Dutch town at the Belgian border. It was important for the escape route along the Meuse. During 1941, a resistance group emerged from the local Sainte Cécile concert band: the fruit grower Alphons Smeets with his entire family, the couple De Liedekerke, customer D. Sleeuwenhoek, and the conductor Arthur Renkin from Liège. (Cammaert 75-94, 135, 239-240). Through Renkin they established cross-border contacts with resistance fighters in the Belgian province of Liège of the Luc /Marc and Clarence organizations such as Jules Goffin from ’s Gravenvoeren (French: Fouron-le-Compte), Christiane Derenne-Lamazière, the Fathers Hugues ( Karel Jacobs ) and Étienne ( Piet Muhren ) from Val-Dieu Abbey and others. They gathered information about train traffic in and around Eijsden and Visé and smuggled persons wanted by the Germans across the border to the south.
They were infiltrated by the German Abwehr, which set up the deadly Hannibal Game for this purpose. At Fort Rijnauwen near Bunnik, on the site where nowadays the memorial wall stands, eleven members of the Dutch-Belgian Erkens resistance group were executed on October 9, 1943. In Belgium the group had the pseudonym Chaperon Rouge). For more information, see Cammaert, chapter 2, p.79 ff.

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Liberated: 1944-09-13

The fallen resistance people in Limburg Eijsden – 6 pers.
Liedekerke de Pailhe, de Raphael R.E.J.G.	∗ 1903-04-15 Eijsden † 1943-10-09 Fort Rhijnauwen, prov. Utrecht	- Aid to escaped POW’s - Pilots’ helpers - Initial resistance - Erkens Group - Intelligence - Eijsden - Belgium - In May 1940, Raphael de Liedekerke fought in the Belgian army. After returning from captivity, he was demobilized as a reserve lieutenant in the Belgian Army. He was a member of the De … wall: left, row 08-02
Partouns, Jozef Jean Gerard Jef	∗ 1911-01-03 Eijsden † 1945-02-08 Vaihingen	- Eijsden - Initial resistance - Erkens Group - Intelligence - Jef Partouns was a laboratory assistant. Jean Arpots, Jef Partouns, and Jef Reintjens were three young men, one of whom worked for the Dutch railways. The three called themselves the Orange … wall: left, row 08-03
Peussens, Christiaan Hubertus Josephus Chrétien	∗ 1907-05-28 Eijsden † 1942-12-30 KZ Sachsenhausen, Oranienburg	- Initial resistance - Unorganized resistance - Aid to Jews - Eijsden - Chrétien Peussens was a fodder trader. Three members of the Peussens family from Eijsden, two brothers and a sister, had several independent connections to resistance fighters in Amsterdam. With … wall: left, row 08-04
Smeets, Cornelis Hubertus Augustinus Hubert	∗ 1892-08-27 Noorbeek; † 1943-10-09 Fort Rhijnauwen, prov. Utrecht	- Initial resistance - Erkens Group - Intelligence - Eijsden - Hub. Smeets was municipal secretary and brother of Alphons Smeets. Member of the Belgian intelligence group Luc, section Renkin, which was to … wall: left, row 08-01
Smeets, Jan Hubertus Alphonse Jan	∗ 1921-08-18 Eijsden † 2015-03-06 Eijsden	- Aid to escaped POW’s - Initial resistance - Erkens Group - Survivors - Eijsden - Jan Smeets was a son of the grower and merchant of fruit Alphons Smeets in Eijsden. He was involved in helping u-01-02
Smeets, Michiel Hubert Alphonse Alphons	∗ 1887-07-14 Mheer (L) † 1943-10-09 Fort Rhijnauwen, prov. Utrecht	- Aid to escaped POW’s - Initial resistance - Erkens Group - Intelligence - Eijsden - Alphons Smeets was a grower and merchant of fruit in Eijsden, neighbor and tenant of Raphael de Liedekerke, father of Jef and wall: left, row 07-05