Marinus Linders

This memorial page is dedicated to Marinus Linders, 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.

Additional information

Grave location: Section F / Grave 66

Son of Hendrikus Linders and Antonetta Manders

On Sunday 8 October 1944, during the 7.00 am Mass, German paratroopers (Fallschirmjäger) surrounded the two Rijkswerkkampen I and II in Mariaveen. The people were driven out of the chapel during the Mass. The Germans blocked off the roads and searched the church and all the houses. All the men and boys were herded together and taken away in a long, sombre convoy. Without food or drink, without extra clothing. Some are still in their nightclothes. According to the Germans, they are to go to work in Maasbree or Helden, but in reality they are being deported to Germany for forced labour (Arbeitseinsatz).

Marinus Linders was a farmhand for Farmer Peters in Helden-Beringen; it was from there that he was arrested during the round-ups of 8 October 1944 and ended up in Lager 6, this former camp for civilian labourers was a sort of transit camp where a place of work and camp accommodation were allocated. He died in the camp hospital in Drütte. The cause of death was not recorded, and he was buried on 20 February 1945 at Jammertal Cemetery, grave section IV (row 12, grave number F). On 18 December 1953, his remains were reburied at the Dutch War Cemetery in Hanover.

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