This memorial page is dedicated to Georg Wilhelm Gilberg, one of more than 725 war victims connected to the municipality of Deurne documented by Stichting Oorlogsslachtoffers. The municipality of Deurne and the surrounding villages of Liessel, Vlierden, Helenaveen, Neerkant and Zeilberg were liberated in the autumn of 1944 during heavy fighting. Victims fell on all sides: Allied soldiers from countries such as the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada and New Zealand, and German soldiers.

But the archive covers more than just the combat victims on Deurne soil. Residents of Deurne who lost their lives elsewhere are also commemorated: civilians who were murdered in concentration camps, forced labourers who died in Germany, people who were executed or succumbed to the effects of persecution and oppression. In addition, residents of Deurne who entered German military service and were killed elsewhere are also included.

Stichting Oorlogsslachtoffers has been documenting the story of all these people since 1995, without distinction of nationality, side or background. The goal is to give every person a name and a face, and to keep their memory alive.

 

Georg Wilhelm Gilberg

Name: Gilberg 
First names: Georg Wilhelm
Nickname: –
Date of birth: 7 December 1915
Place of birth: Heusenstamm, Offenbach district
Residence: –
Rank / Occupation: Sergeant
Identity tag: -155- 7th Company, 88th Infantry Regiment
Unit: 3rd Company, 11th Panzer Grenadier Regiment
Date of death: 28 October 1944
Place of death: Heitrak, Neerkant
Cause of death: –
Cemetery: German Military Cemetery at Ysselsteyn
Memorial site: –

Additional information

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Grave location: Section O, Row 6, Grave 135

Son of Josef and Elisabeth Gilberg, widow Maria Gilberg.

Georg Gilberg was buried at the German war cemetery on Dr Blumenkamplaan in Venlo, from where his remains were reinterred in Ysselsteyn in 1948.

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