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

On January 17, 1944, Paulus Jeurissen was arrested in Mopertingen by a group of 'gestapo'. His mother notices that a handcuffed person has pointed out her home. This is Hubert Thiemann. The Sipo-SD officers then drive further to Bilzen and arrest his brother Pieter Jeurissen there. Pieter, born in 1905, is married and has four children. Before the war he worked in the Waterschei coal mine; During the war he tries to earn a higher wage by working, together with his brother and others from the village, on the construction of the German airfield in Florennes. After his return to Bilzen, he joined the armed partisans from March 1943. Paulus Jeurissen is transferred to Breendonk together with Pieter and he is still locked up there when his brother is executed there. On May 23, Paulus himself is deported to German camps. He died in Bergen Belsen, shortly after the liberation of the camp.

Plot of Honor - Veteran Graves