Memorial Deported and Work Refusers Halle

This memorial commemorates the deported residents of Halle in World War II.

The memorial, erected in 1961, commemorates those who were deported and those who refused to work during the Second World War.
On the bluestone is a medal with the representation of an army officer ordering a worker to enlist in the army. If they refused, they had to go into hiding and if they were arrested or betrayed, they faced deportation to labor camps or concentration camps, where hunger and death prevailed and many did not make it out alive.
Behind the monument is a lime tree that was planted on the occasion of the fortieth anniversary of King Baudouin's reign.

Source : ArcheoNet Flanders and Editiepajot

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Source

• Text: Fedor de Vries + Marie-Christine Vinck
• Photos: Marie-Christine Vinck (1, 2, 3), Luc van Waeyenberge (4, 5)