The fallen resistance people in Limburg

Johan Beyleveld /Beijleveld

Johan Beyleveld was a porcelain decorator in the ceramics industry of Maastricht.

His name is spelled in two ways. We find Beyleveld on maastrichtsegevelstenen.nl [1], arolsen-archives.org [2] and in the oldest document in his personnel file at the OGS [3#4], but after that it becomes Beijleveld.

The director of the Maastricht Regional Labor Office wrote to the OGS in April 1959:
According to the information known to my office, the person named overleaf was employed at the Waldhoff paper mill in Kostheim in the period from June 4, 1943 to December 21, 1943. He was imprisoned in the Amersfoort and Neuengamme concentration camps on August 23, 1943 for going into hiding.
His employment was involuntary, by order of the German authorities. [3#6]

So he had gone into hiding to evade the forced Arbeitsdienst in Germany. Is that resistance? In fact it is, maastrichtsegevelstenen.nl [1] finds. Also on the walls in the resistance monument of the province of Limburg (NL) are some people for this reason, but Johan is not among them.
He was caught and taken to Amersfoort on August 28, 1944. There, in his file, the reason for his arrest is Arbeitsverweigerung (work refusal) [2]. On 6 September 1944, so on Dolle Dinsdag [4] (Mad Tuesday), a few days before the liberation of Maastricht, he was transported to Germany. [3#3]
He died in Neuengamme as a result of ill-treatment, but the Sterbeurkunde (death certificate) states "Lungenentzündung" (pneumonia). [5]
There is a stamp of the Bureau Bijzondere Rechtspleging (Bureau of Special Justice) in his file in the national archives [3#1] with the text: From the archives housed at the Ministry of Justice it does not appear that during the occupation period the person concerned was guilty of political acting or behavior, which led to the imposition of any punishment or measure by organs of the Special Justice, with a date stamp: April 22, 1958. After the liberation of the Netherlands, the purpose of this Bureau Bijzondere Rechtspleging was to try all those who had been guilty during the Second World War of, in particular, collaboration, high treason and war crimes.

Footnotes

1. maastrichtsegevelstenen.nl Lijst van omgekomen verzetsmensen met een Maastrichtse connectie
2. collections.arolsen-archives.org Johan Beyleveld
3. Archief Oorlogsgravenstichting (@ Nationaal archief),
   Dossier Johan Beyleveld • #1 • #3 • #6
4. Dolle Dinsdag, Wikipedia • Nederlands • Deutsch • English • Français • Español
5. https://wiewaswie.nl/nl/detail/101869373
6. Oorlogsgravenstichting.nl