Kremer Family Resistance

At the time of the German occupation of Luxembourg, the Kremer family was composed of the following persons:

Mother: Anne Kremer-Jans, Born: 1.8.1892 - Died: 1945

Sons: Léon Kremer Born: 16.4.1920, Aloyse Kremer Born: 23.1. 1923 - Died: 19.1.1945, Eugène Kremer Born: 4.6.1926

Daughter: Lina Kremer Born: 9.7.1921

Their father had died in 1933.

The family were farmers in the village of Biwisch, near Troisvierges and the border to Belgium. Léon had joined the Luxembourg Armed Forces in 1939. He was among those who were taken to Weimar on 4 December 1940 to be trained as German police men. When in 1942 he was ordered to swear an oath to Hitler, he refused and was consequently sent to Dachau concentration camp of. He was liberated on 29 April 1945.

When the Gauleiter declared compulsory military service in Luxembourg, Aloyse Kremer decided not to serve in the German Army and left Biwisch to join the Belgian Maquis (secret army). In the following months, he guided numerous Luxembourg deserters across the heavily guarded border. In July 1944 he was shot at by German police at Amberloup in Belgium. After surviving heavy interrogations at the Villa Pauly in Luxembourg, he was sent to the Reichskriegsgericht in Torgau. There he was sentenced to death and executed on 19 January 1945.

During Aloyse’s time in prison in Luxembourg, his mother, Anne, and his sister, Lina, were arrested by the Gestapo. After interrogations they were both sent to Ravensbruck concentration camp, where Anna disappeared. Lina was then taken to Bergen-Belsen camp, where she was liberated by British troops. After a stay in Swedish hospitals, she was repatriated to Luxembourg.

A monument honouring the Resistance activities of the Kremer family was inaugurated in 1985 in Biwisch.