The fallen resistance people in Limburg

Pierre Gruijters
(Pierre Emile Joseph)

Pierre Gruijters was Chief purchaser at the Patent- en Kristalsodafabriek in Linne. Roman Catholic. Member of the resistance. Arranged hiding addresses and provided the Allies with information about the war effort and the occupation situation in the Netherlands. [1]
On October 6, 1944, Pierre Gruijters went with Ab Schols to a farmer in Posterholt to collect food for those in hiding. On the way they were stopped by two SS men. The front line ran approximately here in the fall of 1944. The two resistance fighters refused to hand over their bicycles. In Schols’ saddlebags, the SS men found illegal magazines.
For interrogation, the two men were taken to a Gestapo station in the German town of Effeld, just over the border near Herkenbosch. After the interrogation, chief Wilhelm Lammertz from Eschweiler ordered the execution of Schols and Gruijters. They were shot in the woods near Effeld. [2]
Pierre Emile Joseph ( Pierre ) Gruijters is listed in the Erelijst 1940-1945 (Honor Roll of the Dutch Parliament). [3]

Reburied on the National Field of Honor in Loenen, grave  E 1369 [4]

Footnotes

1. wo2slachtoffers.nl Gruijters, Pierre Emile Joseph
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.632
3. Erelijst 1940-1945
4. Nationaal Ereveld Loenen
   oorlogsgravenstichting.nl • 4en5mei.nl, oorlogsmonumenten
   Wikipedia • Nederlands • Deutsch
5. Oorlogsgravenstichting.nl
6. https://gevallenenroermond.nl/appellijst/