The fallen resistance people in Limburg

Jan Brinkman

Miner (hewer), born in Koekange [2], a village in the province of Drenthe, until 1997 municipality of De Wijk. He lived in Waubach. Worked for the party newspaper De Waarheid [1][2], arrested on May 30, 1942. [1][2][5]Dozens of De Vonk distributors from Schaesberg, Nieuwenhagen, Heerlen and Ubach over Worms were arrested on Saturday, May 30, 1942. The entire organization collapsed. Several of those arrested were subjected to extraordinarily harsh interrogations and severely maltreated by Richard Nitsch and his boss Max Strobel. [1 p.1003]
De Vonk was a party newspaper, just like De Waarheid.
He was imprisoned in the concentration camps Amersfoort [3] and Natzweiler [4.1] before ending up in Dachau. [2]
His widow stated in 1973 that he was beaten to death at Dachau. [5]
Jan Brinkman is listed in the Erelijst 1940-1945 (Honor Roll of the Dutch Parliament). [6]

Footnotes

1. Dr. F. Cammaert, Het Verborgen Front – Geschiedenis van de georganiseerde illegaliteit in de provincie Limburg tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Doctorale scriptie 1994, Groningen
   10. De C.P.N. en de illegaliteit Annex VIII, Arrestatie communisten en radicale socialisten 1940-1945
2. ARCH00347.148 Image 5
3. oorlogsbronnen.nl, tijdlijn Jan Brinkman
4. 1. Natzweiler, p.6
   2. Natzweiler
5. Archief Oorlogsgravenstichting (@ Nationaal archief), Dossier • Jan Brinkman #8
6. Erelijst der Gevallenen
7. Oorlogsgravenstichting.nl
8. https://www.stiwotforum.nl/viewtopic.php?p=161326&sid=36b72b3552180288c49898b9970dc75d