The fallen resistance people in Limburg

Hein Senster
(Hendrik Servatius Jozef)

monument.vriendenkringneuengamme.nl …

Hein Senster was a miner. Arrested on fair Monday, June 23, 1941, a year after the Germans invaded the Netherlands. He had organized a demonstration with a group of young people from Vaals. Then, in protest, they swept the street dirt in the direction of the German border. Two of the group were arrested. Hub Hermans was transferred to the Amersfoort concentration camp and later released. Hein ended up in Neuengamme near Hamburg. He had no success writing from the camp. Only one letter to a German address (in near Vaalserquartier) arrived. [1.1]
In May 1945, the prisoners were transferred from Neuengamme to ships in the Bay of Lübeck. What the SS’s intentions were in doing so could never be clarified with certainty. The ships were bombed by the Allies on the assumption that they were troop transports, and perhaps that was exactly the idea behind it. Hein Senster was killed as a result.
About the drama of the bombing of the SS Cap Arcona during the last days of the war in the Bay of Lübeck, in the roadstead of Neustadt in Holstein:
• Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial: Bay of Lübeck: Neustadt in Holstein (Sinking of prisoner ships). [3]
• Wikipedia: Cap Arcona, prison ship and sinking. [4]
Resistance monument at the Eyserlinde. [5]
The story of Senster is in the book "Einmarsch en Bevrijding" by Frits Kern, published by the local history circle Sankt Tolbert, sold out but still available on the internet. Two letters from Senster have also been kept in the archives of the local history circle. [1.2]
Hendrik Servatius Jozef ( Hein ) Senster is listed in the Erelijst 1940-1945 (Honor Roll of the Dutch Parliament). [7]

Footnotes

1. heemkundekring St.-Tolbert, Vaals
   1. Hein Senster
   2. Frits Kern, “Einmarsch en Bevrijding”, publicaties heemkundekring Sankt Tolbert
2. 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, p. 1002
3. KZ-Gedenkstätte Neuengamme: • Untergang der KZ-Häftlingsschiffe • Sinking of prisoner ships • Naufrage des bateaux de détenus
4. Wikipedia • Nederlands • Deutsch • English • Français • Português
5. Verzetsmonument op de Eyserlinde
6. oorlogsbronnen.nl, tijdlijn Hendrik Servatius Jozef Senster
7. Erelijst 1940-1945
8. Oorlogsgravenstichting.nl
9. https://monument.vriendenkringneuengamme.nl/person/404353/Hendrik-Servatius-Jozef-Senster