Pierre Schunck

From the beginning of the German occupation, he decided to stand up against the Germans and became a member of the LO or Landelijke Organisatie voor hulp aan Onderduikers [nl], a resistance group whose mandate was to assist persons in hiding.

[1] He helped Jews and resistance fighters to hide from the Germans in his laundry as well as in the nearby Valkenburg limestone caves.

Furthermore, he assisted both Dutchmen and Allies to move on by issuing them with ration books and coupons and providing them with safe addresses where they could hide.

At the approach of the US-American troops in September of 1944, as a member of intelligence group ID18, he provided the Allies first with reports on the German defences and later he organised food for the evacuated population of Valkenburg, who hid in the vast lime caves during the days of the liberation.

Pierre Schunck was awarded the dutch Resistance Memorial Cross or Verzetsherdenkingskruis for his bravery during the occupation.