Memorial Killed Deported Civilians Wezemaal

In August 1914, 328 of the some 2,000 inhabitants of Wezemaal were taken to Germany and held there for months in dire circumstances in the Munster prison camp. Thirteen citizens of Wezemaal did not return alive: six were shot, seven died of disease and deprivation.
Headstone number 16 of row 13 in the cemetery on the Beninksstraat is not a grave, but a monument to five men of Wezemaal who died in Munster.

There is an information board at the nearby chapel of Our Lady of Assistance. We read the testimony of town clerk Jacobus Verhaegen, one of the 328 deported Orphans: "The first night we thought that none of us would have lived in the morning. Seven of our fellow villagers were shot without reason. There was shooting between the heap as the sparrows are shot here. "

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• Text: Jan Rymenams
• Photos: Jan Rymenams