This memorial page is dedicated to Otto Willberger, 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: Willberger
First names: Otto
Nickname: –
Date of birth: 7 November 1914
Place of birth: Altenessen
Residence: –
Rank / Occupation: Senior Hunter
Identity tag: 4th Company, 2nd Air Signals Regiment (Blood Group A)
Unit: –
Date of death: 31 October 1944
Place of death: Liessel
Cause of death: –
Cemetery: German Military Cemetery at Ysselsteyn
Memorial site: –


Additional information

Grave location: Section T, Row 5, Grave 109

Son of Karl Otto Willberger and Elise Martha Willberger-Wittat.

Otto Willberger was transferred by the Allies from his field grave in Liessel (the exact location of which is unknown) to Mierlo (Section 4, Row A, Grave 15), from where he was reinterred at Ysselsteyn on 6 October 1948.

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

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