CORNIPS Theo, Breendonk 11 April 1944, one of the 24 Partizans that were killed in Fort Breendonk on 11 April 1944.

A few hours after Alfred Parée, his comrade Theo Cornips was also arrested in Eisden. Sipo-SD agent Vandistel is part of the command: “They kicked in the door and walked upstairs, where they surprised Cornips in his sleep. I also went upstairs, where I saw Cornips standing in his shirt, with his hands on his head.” Maria Straetemans, his wife, sees how her husband is arrested by a group of 18 men: “I was going crazy with fear at that moment, because I was sitting with a revolver on me.” She hears nothing more about her husband until she receives a letter from him: “In the letter he informed me that he only had 1 hour left to live…”

PAREE Alfred, Breendonk 11 April 1944, one of the 24 Partizans that were killed in Fort Breendonk on 11 April 1944.

On the night of July 17, 1943, miner Alfred Parée was arrested in Mechelen aan de Maas by ten Sipo-SD officers. He belongs to the organization of the Armed Partisans. He commits sabotage and participates in liquidations of collaborators. His wife remains without news of her husband until: “During the year 1944 I did receive a letter from the Field Commandantur in Hasselt informing me that my husband had been sentenced to death and that the sentence had already been carried out.”

Veteran Graves of the First and Second World War.