This memorial page is dedicated to Mechelinus Althuizen, 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: Althuizen
First names: Mechelinus
Nickname: Gilleke
Date of birth: 10 October 1933
Place of birth: Deurne
Residence: Heuvelstraat B48, Deurne
Rank / Occupation: –
Identity tag: –
Unit: –
Date of death: 15 February 1945
Place of death: Deurne
Cause of death: –
Cemetery: –
Memorial site: –



Additional information
Son of Henricus Althuizen and Catharina Hendrica van de Kerkhof.

Mechelinus Althuizen was on his way with his brother Driekske to fetch potatoes with a cart when, suddenly and out of nowhere, British tracked vehicles came driving along. Driekske Althuizen managed to jump out of the way just in time and stood against a wall; to his great horror, he saw his little brother, Mechelinus Althuizen, disappear beneath the tracks of one of the tracked vehicles.

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