This memorial page is dedicated to Cornelis Klaas Noordermeer, one of more than 725 war victims connected to the municipality of Deurne documented by Stichting Oorlogsslachtoffers. The municipality of Deurne and the surrounding villages of Liessel, Vlierden, Helenaveen, Neerkant and Zeilberg were liberated in the autumn of 1944 during heavy fighting. Victims fell on all sides: Allied soldiers from countries such as the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada and New Zealand, and German soldiers.

But the archive covers more than just the combat victims on Deurne soil. Residents of Deurne who lost their lives elsewhere are also commemorated: civilians who were murdered in concentration camps, forced labourers who died in Germany, people who were executed or succumbed to the effects of persecution and oppression. In addition, residents of Deurne who entered German military service and were killed elsewhere are also included.

Stichting Oorlogsslachtoffers has been documenting the story of all these people since 1995, without distinction of nationality, side or background. The goal is to give every person a name and a face, and to keep their memory alive.

 

Cornelis Klaas Noordermeer

Name: Noordermeer
First names: Cornelis Klaas
Nickname: Cor (alias Clement)
Date of birth: 12 April 1918
Place of birth: Lochem
Residence: in Deurne
Rank / Occupation: Sergeant in the Royal Military Police
Identity tag: –
Unit: Royal Military Police Deurne Group
Date of death: 11 August 1944
Place of death: Vught
Cause of death: executed by firing squad
Cemetery: Old General Cemetery in Zaltbommel
Memorial site: Memorial at the Execution Site in Vught
: War Memorial in Griendtsveen

 

Additional information

Son of Cornelis Noordermeer and Rieka Reurslag.

Cornelis Klaas Noordermeer was stationed as a sergeant with the Royal Military Police in Deurne; he was also a member of a resistance organisation. Following a raid on a rationing office, he was forced to go into hiding but was later arrested, together with Nico van Oosterhout, in Utrecht during a meeting of ‘De Raad van Verzet’ (the Resistance Council), or RVV. Cornelis Klaas Noordermeer and Nico van Oosterhout had travelled to Utrecht on the instructions of Josephus Mathias Pius Germanus Maria Peerbooms to attend this meeting

Via the ‘Oranjehotel’, the prison in Scheveningen, he ended up in the ‘Konzentrationslager Herzogenbusch’, also known as Vught Concentration Camp. After being held for three days and interrogated in the Bunker, he was executed by the Germans in Vught at the execution site, which also served as the camp’s firing range.

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