Date of birth:

March 13th, 1918 (Heerlen, the Netherlands)

Date of death:

September 5th, 1944 (Vught, the Netherlands)

Buried on:

Ash Pits Wells Camp Vught

Nationality:

Dutch

Lived in Heerlen, 98 Laanderstraat. Son of goldsmith Johan Louis Christiaan Rooijackers (28 June 1885 Helmond) and Johanna Catharina Sauvé. Unmarried. Commercial correspondent / Mining Police Officer. Roman Catholic. Member of resistance belonging to the KP-Heerlen. He was involved in the aid of prisoners of war who had fled Germany. He was also active in the group that distributed the illegal newspaper Het Parool in South Limburg. He also attempted to eliminate G.J.H. Seelen, police commander in Heerlen, but the attack failed. In mid-August 1944 he was arrested by the occupying forces. The Heerlen KP received a lot of help from two midwives, including A.M. Bensen-Offermans. The group members were allowed to use her car to transport refugees, weapons and explosives. On August 14, 1944 she heard that the Sipo were looking to arrest her, due to the fact that her car had been spotted during a resistance- linked mission. She asked Rooyackers' girlfriend to temporarily look after her house. He accompanied his girlfriend to the house that same evening. When Bensen-Offermans wanted to go to her hiding place, he asked if he could ride along. They soon caught sight of a patrol of Sipo people and land guards. Rooijackers jumped straight out of the car. The midwife was left undisturbed after she told her she was on her way to a delivery. She did have to leave her car as she was told that she could ride a bike just as well. The next day she was informed that she could pick up the car in Maastricht. Rooijackers definitely wanted to go with her to clarify the matter. Both were arrested. Rooijackers was transferred to Camp Vught and was executed there on 5 September 1944 with almost sixty fellow inmates. His name is on the war memorial at the execution site and the memorial wall in the National Monument Camp Vught.

Rooijackers was cremated in concentration camp Vught. On October 21, 1946, a Holy Mass of Requiem was held in his name in the Holy Rectorate Church. Rooijackers was cremated in the concentration camp Vught. Artifacts associated with him have been donated to the museum at Nationaal Monument Kamp Vught (including a silk tie that is on display there in a glass case).

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• Photo 1: Judith Esser
• Photo 2: Judith Esser
• - OGS Gedenkboek 36 - Amersfoort, Vught, Westerbork, Oorlogsgravenstichting.
  - Cammaert, Het Verborgen Front
  - Nationaal Monument Kamp Vught
  - Oorlogsgravenstichting
  - Erelijst van Gevallenen 1940-1945
  - Judith Esser

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