Remembering Luxembourg's resistance fighters
On Sunday Luxembourg citizens remembered the country's resistance fighters during the Second World War, and all those who died in prisons, and concentration and labour camps during the bitter conflict.
(CS) On Sunday Luxembourg citizens remembered the country's resistance fighters during the Second World War, and all those who died in prisons, and concentration and labour camps during the bitter conflict.
In 1997 Resistance Day was commemorated for the first time in Luxembourg. It had previously been called the Hinzerter Mass, named after Hinzert, Germany, where members of the 1942 general strike in Luxembourg were murdered, and where 23 resistance leaders were executed in 1944.
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