[Nummern-Namen-Kartei Männer Buchenwald - Part 8] 9684841

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Document from the Arolsen Archives with the ID: 9684841

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Mathieu BUSCHGENS

http://www.getuigen.be/Lijsten/De-Meester-Eduard/overleden-in-concentratiekamp-lijst-20van-202006-09-14.htm

https://blog.seniorennet.be/wereldoorlog2_concentratiekampen/archief.php?startaantal=41

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Mathieu Buschgens from Stokkem, worked in the coal transhipment harbor in Born.
Together with his two sons, he provided help to escaped prisoners and allied airmen in the Dutch border region. On Sunday 19 December 1943 the Feldgendarmerie wanted to arrest the son Charles Buschgens in his Matrimonial home in Smeermaas Lanaken. During the search he was injured and had to be taken to the hospital in Genk, from where he was later released by his father and brother Hubert. They had stolen two German uniforms for this.
Father Mathieu Buschgens was taken as a hostage on January 3, 1944 arrested, together with his cousin Karel (Charles) Buschgens, who in lived in the same street in Stokkem. He may have been confused with the eponymous son of Mathieu.
On May 5, 1944 they were, together with Arnold Roumans and Jean Fisette, transported from Brussels to Buchenwald . Three of them died in Bergen-Belsen in April 1945.
Only Karel Buschgens was liberated on 11 April 1945 in Buchenwald by the 6th Armored Division of the 3rd US Army