Guided tour at the memorial for Nazi victims in Rheine-Mesum on September 2, 2023
On Saturday, September 2, Günter and Magda Achterkamp offer a guided tour at the memorial site for Nazi victims in Rheine-Mesum. The focus will be on the memorial, remembrance and gravesite of the city of Rheine and the VDK-Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge NRW for the victims of war and tyranny under National Socialism 1933-1945, which was rebuilt in 2011 at the Old Cemetery of the Catholic Church Parish of St. John the Baptist at the Old Church in Rheine-Mesum.
Researched biographies of victims of Nazi forced labor from 8 nations, of 20 buried infants and toddlers of forced laborers from the textile factories W. Gröning and H. Kettelhack Mesum and of euthanasia victims of Hitler’s T4 action, murdered sick and disabled people from Rheine and the district of Steinfurt will be reported. In addition, the current status of the development of the re-erection of graves for German and Dutch victims from the Nazi forced labor camp Mesum Dorf 304, today Nasigerstr., of the Mesumer NS-Entwässerungs- und Bodenverbesserungs-genossenschaft, who were used for the recultivation of the “Mesumer Mark” at the risk of their lives as forced laborers, will be conveyed.
All interested parties are cordially invited to the free guided tour. Prior registration is not required.
Location:
Remembrance, memorial and gravesite Alter Friedhof-Alte Kirche- in Rheine-Mesum , Alte Kirchstr. 25, 48432 Rheine-Mesum
Time:
4 p.m. to about 5 p.m.
Organizer:
Günter u. Magda Achterkamp in civic engagement for the city Rheine with partners and sponsors and in cooperation with Gegen Vergessen für Demokratie e.V. Berlin, Geschichtsort Villa ten Hompel Münster, Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge e.V. NRW Essen/ Münster and Kath. parish of St. John the Baptist Rheine-Mesum.
Contact: 05975/93777 or city Rheine 05971/ 939-222.
Photo: Günter Achterkamp