Hondsbësch Gallery
The Hondsbësch gallery near Niederkorn in the municipality of Differdingen was a disused part of the mine that served as a hiding place during the German occupation of Luxembourg for young men who wanted to evade forced recruitment into the German armed forces , contrary to international law .
history
Because of the high human casualties by the Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front, compulsory military service in the quasi-annexed Luxembourg was announced on August 30, 1942 by the head of civil administration Gustav Simon for the CdZ area of Luxembourg . Many forced recruits tried to evade military service by hiding with relatives, friends, acquaintances and other Luxembourg patriots. The largest refuge in Luxembourg was in the partially disused Hondsbësch mine near Niederkorn, where 122 fugitives temporarily went into hiding.
memory
After the war, the supporters of those who went into hiding received the “Médaille de la Reconnaissance Nationale”.
In Lasauvage was Espace museological space created in which the lives of the people in hiding is described in the gallery Hondsbësch.
Web links
- Film gallery Hondsbësch , (2min 38)
- Espace muséologique , on newcom.lu
literature
- Vic. Klincker u. Jos. Graas: 120 refractairen ënnert dem buedem at the minière "Hondsbësch" to Nidderkuer. Unio'n Verlag, 1945 (not viewed)
- André Hohengarten: The forced recruitment of the Luxembourgers to the Wehrmacht and the SS special camp / Hinzert concentration camp. pdf, Hinzert 2006
Individual evidence
- ^ André Hohengarten: The forced recruitment of Luxembourgers to the Wehrmacht and the SS special camp / Hinzert concentration camp , pdf, Hinzert 2006
Coordinates: 49 ° 31 '58.3 " N , 5 ° 53' 27.7" E