The executions were carried out in secret and the victims were buried anonymously. A number of the resistance fighters killed in Rieme (who - since the Rieme execution site had to make way for the Kluizendok - are also commemorated here) were found in a mass grave in Hechtel-Eksel (Limburg). As a result, it is still unclear how many people died there.

Today, this place is a green zone for peace and contemplation, where we commemorate the resistance fighters.

The execution site was protected as a landscape in 1966, because it is important for history and must be preserved for future generations.

Source: stad.gent/nl/buitenlocaties/executieoord-rieme-oostakker

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wesley

May 5, 2023

The Rieme-Oostakker Execution Center is the place in the Ghent borough of Oostakker where 66 resistance fighters were executed by the German occupiers between 8 February 1943 and 24 August 1944. The memory of the 20 resistance fighters who died at the execution site of Rieme is also kept alive here

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