Remembrance Sign Fusillade Location Ees

Remembrance sign in the Eeser forest at a location which was likely to be used as a mass grave and fusillade location for 30 individuals convicted to death. The ditch (20 by 3 meters and 1 meter deep) tells the story of an unsolved case. Polish liberators advanced quickly in April 1945 and therefore the Germans had no opportunity to actually shoot these convicts. The story behind who these people were and why they were convicted is a mystery.

The location is adopted by a nearby school and is commemorated with the sign. On the sign is a text by local reverend Harm van Lunzen who wrote about this history in his church newspaper in 1965.

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Source

• Text: Lennard Bolijn & Roelie Nijenhuis-Hoenderken
• Photos: René Koopman
• Zuidoosthoeker.nl