Memorial Assistance to Prisoners
This memorial commemorates the help the residents of Megchelen and other villages in the area offered to about 600 prisoners who had escaped from the labor camp Rees in World War II.
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Source
- Text: Fedor de Vries
- Photos: Arjan Vrieze (1, 2, 3), Henny van Loenen (4, 5)
Nearby
Museum
Point of interest
- Kockbunker Netterden - Netterden
- Kamp Rees - Arbeitslager Groin - Rees
- Staff Quarter General Student Dinxperlo - Dinxperlo
Monument
- Liberation Route Marker 72 - Megchelen
- WWII Monument Gendringen - Gendringen
- War Memorial Praest - Praest
Cemetery
- Dutch war graves RK graveyard Megchelen - Megchelen
- German War Graves Anholt - Anholt
- Dutch War Graves Reformed Cemetery Gendringen - Gendringen
Remembrance Stone
- Stumbling Stones Hauptstraße 29 - Millingen
- Memorial Stone Jewish Cemetery Dinxperlo - Dinxperlo
- Stumbling Stones Hovenstraat 2 - Dinxperlo
Fortification
Crash site
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