Mindelunden i Ryvangen   Ryvangen Memorial Park                                         Updated: 25 OCT 2021
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Kort*1 Hovedindgang*2 Mindemur*3 Monument*4 Mindetavle*5 Det store Gravfelt*6 Gravlund for KZ-fanger*7 Mindesmærke for KZ-ofre*8 Henrettelsesplads
Map*1 Main entrance* 2 Memorial Wall* 3 Monument* 4 Plaque* 5 The big Plot * 6 From Concentration Camps* 7 To KZ Victims* 8 The Place of Execution

Ryvangen 8a Foto: Anders Straarup 24 FEB 2016.
Henrettelsespladsen ses
samme inskription af Kaj Munk
som ved Monumentet.
Se Drenge, I drenge som døde - baggrund.
JOHN blev henrettet her 27. april 1944.
Da 8 mænd fra Hvidstengruppen blev
henrettet 29. juni 1944, udløste det på
toppen af anden uro Folkestrejken.
Hitler ønskede ikke flere martyrer!
Se Mindelunden i Hvidsten.
Næste henrettelse efter krigsretsdom
kom 21. februar 1945.

Photo: Anders Straarup 24 FEB 2016.
At the Place of Execution there is the
same inscription by Kaj Munk
as at the Monument:
Lads, you lads who died,
You lit for Denmark
In her darkest gloom
A brightening dawn.

JOHN was executed here on 27 April 1944.
When 8 men of the Hvidsten Cell were shot here on 29 June 1944. When that was made public it provoked a general strike in Copen-hagen. Hitler did not want more martyrs!
See The memorial garden in Hvidsten.
The next execution after a court-martial took place on 21 February 1945.