Glain Communal Cemetery
April 11, 2024, it will be 80 years ago that 24 Limburg partisans were executed at the execution site of Fort Breendonk.
They are buried in: As / Beverlo / Bilzen / Diepenbeek / Eisden / Genk / Glain / Koersel / Korspel / Maaseik / Piringen / Sint-Truiden / Vucht / Zutendaal
VANHEES Jean-Henri-Guillaume , Breendonk 11 April 1944, one of the 24 Partizans that were killed in Fort Breendonk on 11 April 1944.
Jean Vanhees was born in March 1914 in Glain near Liège. On September 12, 1914, his father died as a soldier in the Belgian army in Haacht. Jean was taught patriotism from an early age. He is especially active in the distribution of clandestine magazines among miners. He gets those surreptitious magazines from Armand Moureaux in Piringen. On October 23, 1943, the Sipo-SD of Antwerp, together with the Sipo-SD of Hasselt, organized a raid in the mining community of Eisden. Jean is arrested in his home. He is formally accused of sabotaging electrical works in Eisden and setting fire to a German barracks in As, all in all lighter crimes.
Plot of Honor - Veteran Graves
