Execution Memorial Wijsterseweg Hoogeveen

The help that they offered to the French Paratroopers who were dropped for Amherst , has 19 innocent people lost their lives . On Monday 9 and Tuesday, April 10, 1945 , just before the liberation of Hoogeveen on April 11, 1945 , they are killed by the Germans in retaliation . The names of the victims : Arend Scholing 55 years Margje Scholing - Duinkerken 55 years their sons : Dirk Scholing 26 years Arend Jan Scholing 17 years Gezinus Scholing 14 years and sons in law: Mintinus Pol 28 years Jan Rotmensen 25 years Reinder Lunenborg 52 years his son : Egbert Lunenborg 16 years John Lunenborg 49 years his son : William Lunenborg 17 years and son in law: Ate le Duc 26 years Marinus Voerman 39 years All from the Wijsterseweg . further: Hayo Wubs 27 years Roelof Veldman 24 years Pieter Strijker 24 years Gerrit Coelingh 26 years Hendrik Markveldt 27 years Matthijs Erkens 24 years