Mass Grave and War Memorial Marcourt

On the facade facing the cemetery of the Church of Saint Martin, there is a memorial stone at the mass grave of the civilians who died in September 1944 and who are buried here.
There are also a number of memorial stones with photos in front of the monument.

On September 8, resistance fighters fired on two German tanks in the village. One was set on fire, the other escaped battered. Two soldiers were killed. The next day the Germans hastily organized a collective punishment. They doused houses with phosphorus and burned them to the ground. Thirty hostages were taken to the courtyard of Baclin Castle. The ten youngest were taken to a shed, machine-gunned in the legs and burned alive. Their charred corpses were buried together because they were unrecognizable and too entwined. André Dartevelle and Francis Dujardin made a documentary in 1992 about the inability to come to terms with these events: Marcourt ou la mémoire secrète.

The moment on facade consists of three stone panels.
On the left panel are the names:
Collin Celine
Collin Raymonds
Scius Jules
Remacle Albert
Roquet Laurent
Piret Joseph

On the middle panel are the text and the names:
A nos martyrs
tombes en septembre 1944
Cillet Jules
Soreil Jules
Damoiseaux Jules
Brackman Joseph
Selecque Adelin
Selecque Cyrille
Peree Alexandre

On the right panel are the names:
Petit Victor
Pierrard Leon
Dubuisson Joseph
Scius Adolphe
Adam Joseph
Cornet Emerance