List of memorial stones for Nazi victims in Mechelen
The list of memorial stones for Nazi victims in Mechelen contains memorial stones that were laid in the Flemish city of Mechelen ( German Mechelen, French Malines ) in Belgium . They remind of the fate of those people from this region who were murdered, deported, expelled or driven to suicide by the German National Socialists . The memorial stones consist of no memorial plaques laid in the ground . Their shape imitates Gunter Demnig's “ stumbling blocks ” , which he relocated elsewhere.
The relocations took place on March 19, 2012, May 16, 2013, November 14, 2014 and most recently on May 13, 2016 in the courtyard of the Koninklijk Atheneum [Royal Athenaeum] in Mechelen. The stones are dedicated to former students and teachers of this institution.
Mechelen
The table is partially sortable; the basic sorting is done alphabetically according to the family name.
| image | Surname | Location | Laying date | Life | |
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Guillaume Crols | Bruul 129 |
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March 19, 2012 | Guillaume Crols was born on December 16, 1920. He graduated from the KA Pitzemburg school and was involved in the resistance against the Nazi occupiers. He was arrested on March 19, 1942 as a political prisoner. He survived the Sachsenhausen concentration camp and returned after the fall of the Nazi regime. He later became prefect and died on August 31, 2006. |
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Edmond Nackaerts | Bruul 129 |
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May 16, 2013 | Edmond Nackaerts was born on July 24, 1919. He graduated from the KA Pitzemburg school and was involved in the resistance against the Nazi occupiers. He was arrested as a political prisoner on June 29, 1942. He barely survived three years of internment in concentration camps and returned after the fall of the Nazi regime. He died on May 26, 2004. |
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Willem Sel | Bruul 129 |
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Nov 14, 2014 | Willem Sel, also called "Jomme", was born on May 15, 1921. He graduated from the KA Pitzemburg school and was involved in the resistance against the Nazi occupiers. He was arrested on August 27, 1941 as a political prisoner. He barely survived four years of internment in concentration camps and returned after the fall of the Nazi regime. He died on April 9, 1999. |
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Marcel Simon | Bruul 129 |
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May 13, 2016 | Marcel Simon was born on April 5, 1901. He graduated from the KA Pitzemburg school and was involved in the resistance against the Nazi occupiers. He was arrested on June 20, 1941 as a political prisoner. He did not survive internment in the National Socialist concentration camps. He was murdered on May 31, 1942.
Two of his daughters were present when the memorial stone was laid. |
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Jean Volckaerts | Bruul 129 |
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May 13, 2016 | Jean Volckaerts was born on May 11, 1926. He graduated from the KA Pitzemburg school and was involved in the resistance against the Nazi occupiers. He was arrested on May 16, 1942 as a political prisoner. He barely survived three years of internment in concentration camps and returned after the fall of the Nazi regime. He died on February 2, 2010. |
source
- Pitzemburg Campus , accessed on January 12, 2017
- Laying the stone for Willem Sel
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ 8 Mei Comité regio Mechelen: KA Pitzemburg honors oud-prefect Guillaume Crols , March 20, 2012, accessed on January 12, 2017
- ^ H. Mehrtens: Mathematics and War: Germany, 1900-1945 , in: National Military Establishments and the Advancement of Science and Technology , Studies in 20th Century History, ed. by Paul Forman and José Manuel Sánchez Ron, Springer Science & Business Media, Dordrecht 1996, p. 120, accessed online on January 12, 2017.
- ↑ 8 Mei Comité regio Mechelen: Donderdag 16 May 2013 - Leerlingen KA Pitzemburg hangen vredeswensen aan de schoolpoort , accessed on January 12, 2017.
- ↑ HLN.BE: Leerlingen onthullen herinneringsstenen , May 19, 2016, accessed on January 12, 2017
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