The fallen resistance people in Limburg

Jan Dahmen
(Adrianus Johannes)

Oorlogsgravenstichting

Jan Dahmen was born in Germany to Dutch parents. [2]
He was was a merchant of electrical goods. He and his wife Lisa Ottenheym, who came from Germany, gave shelter to Allied airmen and Jewish people. Jan Dahmen,Jacob Janssen and the O.D. man Marcel Stoffels were victims of infiltration by the V-man Joop de Heus. On June 9, 1944, the Sipo from ’s-Hertogenbosch arrested the pub owner C.H.L. Hofman and his son Harrie - the latter was soon released. [1]
Also Janssen, the Dahmen couple and two Jews who had found a hiding place with them. Lisa too was soon released, but before she had to listen in prison to her husband being tortured. After her release, she continued the resistance work unabated until the end of the occupation. [4]
Janssen and Stoffels were executed in Camp Vught on August 11 and Dahmen on August 19, 1944. P. Weyl, one of the Jews arrested with Dahmen, died in Dachau on March 20, 1945. His sister Thea survived the war. [1]
Adrianus Johannes ( Jan ) Dahmen is listed in the Erelijst 1940-1945 (Honor Roll of the Dutch Parliament). [3]

Vught • Fusilladeplaats • Former execution site • Ancien site d’exécution


Footnotes

1. F. Cammaert, Het Verborgen Front – Geschiedenis van de georganiseerde illegaliteit in de provincie Limburg tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog, VIb, De Landelijke Organisatie voor hulp aan onderduikers, pp. 618-619
2. wo2slachtoffers.nl
3. Erelijst 1940-1945
4. Oorlogsgravenstichting.nl