was born on 29 January 1914, in Wemmel. He was arrested on 4 August 1942, as a member of the "Secret Army". He escaped and was finally arrested in 1943. Guy Hannecart (1903–1945) a lawyer and leader of La Voix des Belges. He was also member of the lodge les Amis Philanthropes N°3. Survivors Erauw and Somerhausen met again 1944 in the Oranienburg Sachsenhausen concentration camp, and remained inseparable from then on. In the spring of 1945 they were involved in the death marches, and although Erauw was 1.84 m tall, he weighed only 32 kg on 21 May 1945 — in the Saint Pierre Hospital in Brussels. In August 1945 Luc Somerhausen sent a detailed report to the grand master of the Grand Orient of Belgium, in which he delineated the history of the loge Liberté chérie. Luc Somerhausen died in 1982 at the age of 79. The last witness, Fernand Erauw, died at the age of 83, in 1997. 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. See also Grand Orient of Belgium History of Freemasonry Suppression of Freemasonry References Fernand Erauw: L'odysée de Liberté Chérie, 1993 — History of this Lodge Pierre Verhas: Liberté chérie: Une loge maçonnique dans un camp de concentration. Bruxelles, Labor, 2005, ill., 62 p. Franz Bridoux: La Respectable Loge Liberté Chérie au camp de concentration d'Esterwegen, Nuit et Brouillard Éditions du Grand Orient de Belgique 2009 External links Weblog : La lumière dans les ténèbres des camps diz-emslandlager.de For a brief Wikipedia history of Belgian freemasonry in French see :fr:Franc-maçonnerie en Belgique La création de la Loge Liberté Chérie au camp d'Esterwegen by Franz Bridoux Freemasonry in Germany Grand Orient of Belgium Masonic Lodges