Collective Grave Victims Bombing of Nijmegen Catholic Cemetery Wijchen

Elckerlijcweg, Wijchen
Gelderland, Netherlands, the

At the Roman Catholic Cemetery in Wijchen is a collective grave of 13 civilians who were killed during the bombing of Nijmegen on 22 February 1944. During this Allied mistake bombing, almost 800 people were killed and a large part of the city centre of Nijmegen was destroyed.

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Text by: TracesOfWar.nl

Photo(s): Arjan Vrieze

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