# Monument aan de Meppelerstraatweg

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Monument aan de Meppelerstraatweg stands in Zwolle as a war memorial for five resistance members from Kampen, Zwolle, and Zwollerkerspel. Five angled concrete trunks rise beside a cross and a rectangular stone base. The plaque records the men’s names, birthplaces, and execution, while each trunk represents one life cut short.

The five men were executed in Zwolle as reprisals for an attack on a railway bridge near Dedemsvaart. Those remembered are Hermanus Bosch, Wilhelmus van Dijk, Johannes Albertus Muller, Willem Sebel, and Berend IJzerman. Resistance work linked them to the Landelijke Knokploegen, de Groene, the Ordedienst, aid for people in hiding, and escape routes for downed airmen. Their bodies were later buried in IJsselmuiden, Lutten, Zwolle, and Kampen.

An annual ceremony brings the Last Post, a minute of silence, flowers, and the flags of the Netherlands and Zwolle at half-mast. Local primary schools help organise the remembrance. The present design appeared in 1963, after a wooden cross with the five names first marked the place. Because the execution site is inaccessible, these slanted trunks carry its memory forward.

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