Masonic Lodge #45 "Liberté chérie" - Bockhorst, Germany
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Monument to Masonic Lodge #45 "Liberté chérie" on Begräbnisstätte Esterwegen / Friedhof Bockhorst located at B 401 near Bockhorst, Germany.
Waymark Code: WM10GCW
Location: Niedersachsen, Germany
Date Posted: 05/04/2019
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The respectable lodge “Liberté Chérie” is registered on the number 45 in the Grand Lodge in the East of Belgium. (
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The Lodge:
Liberté chérie was one of three Masonic lodges founded within a Nazi concentration camp during the Second World War.
On November 15, 1943, seven Belgian Freemasons and resistance fighters founded the Masonic Lodge "Liberté chérie" inside Hut 6 of Emslandlager VII (Esterwegen) (
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The name of the lodge was derived from La Marseillaise.
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The memorial:
A memorial, created by architect Jean de Salle, was raised by Belgian and German Freemasons on 13 November 2004. It is now part of the memorial site of the Esterwegen Cemetery. Wim Rutten, the grand master of the Belgian Federation of the Le Droit Humain said during an address:
"We are gathered here today on this Cemetery in Esterwegen, not to mourn, but to express free thoughts in public." - "In memory of our brothers; human rights should never be forgotten."
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