This memorial page is dedicated to Gerardus Berkers, 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.

 

Name: Berkers
First names: Gerardus
Nickname: –
Date of birth: 18 May 1900
Place of birth: Deurne
Residence: 31 Oude Stationsstraat, Asten
Rank / Occupation: –
Identity tag: Political Delinquent
Unit: –
Date of death: 2 May 1945
Place of death: Vught, former detention and internment camp
Cause of death: –
Cemetery: German Military Cemetery at Ysselsteyn
Memorial site: –


Additional information

Grave location: Section T / Row 7, Grave 167

Son of Johannes Berkers and Jozina Verberne. Widow, Catharina Korremans

After the liberation, Gerardus Berkers was interned as a political offender in the former detention and transit camp at Vught. After his death, he was buried in the cemetery of the former penal camp, Section R.K. / Grave 20, from where he was reburied on 11 July 1968 to the German Military Cemetery in Ysselsteyn.

Due to a number of clerical errors by the camp administration, Gerardus Berkers was reburied at both the cemetery of the former penal camp and the German Military Cemetery in Ysselsteyn under the name Bernardus Berker.

A transfer report containing identification details, drawn up by the Identification and Recovery Service, may be available for inspection from the author.

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