Do you still know it? The famous summer oak at Hollandscheveld? It would go down to make room for an electricity station. Due to neighborhood protests, that plan was canceled and the tree got a different place last year. To keep history alive, the oak now gets an information board.
For the Hoogeveense Alie Kroezen that means a lot. Her grandfather planted the tree more than a hundred years ago. “Because of everything that has happened in recent years, this feels like a completion of the process. I am very happy with it.”
According to regional historian Albert Metselaar, the tree is especially for several reasons. The place where the tree stood on the Riegmeer was also meaningful for the resistance during the Second World War.
“The red, communist, resistance was active in Hollandscheveld. The tree was on the ground of the Kroezen family, of which Alie de Vries is part. They were part of the resistance and made Jewish people in hiding a place.”
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