Acts of kindness
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A first contact from Winsen an der Aller
Here the death march crossed the river Aller. We learn that there was another death march after the one from Ovelgönne, in April 1945 days before the arrival of the Allies a march came through from Hannover. 9 French people escaped and were hidden.
We are contacted by an elderly school teacher who informs us of a memorial stone, sited just north of the river. We will find the stone and here the walk first day of our walk will finish and the second day begin.
Veranstaltungsorte: evang. “St. Johannes der Täufer”-Kirche | Gedenkstein “Am Amtshof”
The teacher informs us of this brave act of resistance and kindness and leaves us with a question….can anyone out there help?
On the stone the carpenter Wilhelm Scheinhardt and his wife Alwine are mentioned, who hid nine french inmates from a death march til the liberation by the British Army.
The only thing we do not know up to now is: Which British unit liberated Südwinsen ? They were members of the 8th Parachute Battalion as the PEGASUS ARCHIVE has told us and the Scheinhardts handed the French inmates over to them. We think that there must have been a notice in some war diary about this.