This memorial page is dedicated to Martinus Moors, 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: Moors
First names: Martinus
Nickname: Martin
Date of birth: 31 January 1921
Place of birth: Deurne
Residence: Liesselseweg J.42, Deurne
Rank / Occupation: SS-Schütze
Identity tag: 282 – 2nd Company, SS Reconnaissance Battalion 5
Unit: 5th Company, SS Reconnaissance Battalion 5 “Wiking”
Date of death: 2 March 1943
Place of death: Petropolje (Ukraine)
Cause of death: –
Cemetery: Mass grave in Kharkiv (Ukraine)
Memorial site: Mass grave in Kharkiv (Ukraine)

Additional information

Son of Justinus Moors and Maria van de Mortel, brother of Antonius Johannes Moors.

Burial location: “Unter den Unbekannten”

Martinus Moors was presumably reburied as an unknown soldier at the German military mass grave in Kharkiv. His name is therefore also listed in the memorial register of this cemetery.

Martinus Moors worked, through the employment agency, in France and subsequently in Germany, from where he returned to the Netherlands in 1942. At some point, Martinus volunteered for the Waffen-SS; however, his personal reason for enlisting remains unclear.

On 23 June 1943, Martin’s mother received a letter from L.W. Mols, the NSB district leader of Helmond, informing her that Martinus had been killed in action on the Eastern Front.

Overlijdensregister
Death Register

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