Maaseik Communal Cemetery
April 11, 2024, it will be 80 years ago that 24 Limburg partisans were executed at the execution site of Fort Breendonk.
They are buried in: As / Beverlo / Bilzen / Diepenbeek / Eisden / Genk / Glain / Koersel / Korspel / Maaseik / Piringen / Sint-Truiden / Vucht / Zutendaal
MACKELBERGS Jules, Breendonk 11 April 1944, one of the 24 Partizans that were killed in Fort Breendonk on 11 April 1944.
Julien Mackelberghe was born in 1915 in La Coulonche (Normandy), probably as a child of a Belgian family that had fled from the war zone in the Westhoek. He ends up in Maaseik as a border guard and there he marries Elise Paspont. In May 1941 he joined the resistance and on November 25, 1942 he was included in the partisan army. Shortly afterwards he went into hiding, hence the statement on the German poster with the 24 executed people: “Before joining the terrorists, he lived exclusively from smuggling.” On January 17, 1944 he was arrested in Maaseik. He is sentenced to death under accusations of liquidations and a bomb attack. On April 11 at 10 am we will organize a commemoration at the Maaseik cemetery.
Plot of Honour with veteran graves.
