Execution site Citadel, l'Enclos des Fusillés

At this place, in the citadel of Liège, 271 people were executed during World War II. Most of them were Belgian resistance fighters from the Armée Secret or the Front Independance, for example, who were arrested and imprisoned here until their trial.

They are commemorated, along with other victims, with symbolic graves. In total, there are 317 symbolic graves here. In addition, 98 resistance fighters are still buried here.

Among them was STREE Maxime, age 21, from Ougrée (district in Liège). He was arrested on April 7, 1944, on suspicion of being a member of the Resistance. He was executed 6 days later on April 13, 1944. (photo 3)

Among those executed are 10 Polish POWs, 18 Russian POWs and one Spanish prisoner.

The chaplain Mathieu Voncken, age 91, from Schimmert (NL) who assisted the prisoners in their last hours is also buried here. He died in 1971 and is buried in a separate grave to the side of the execution piles. (photo 5)

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Source

• Text: Ed Lewandowski
• Photos: Ed Lewandowski
• Citadelle de Liège
• bel-memorial.org
• wardeadregister.be