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Conflagration of Sinterklaas bombing still palpable: ‘It was a disaster’

For many Dutch people, December 5 is the cheerful day of Christmas Eve every year with the family. But for Lambert Kliebisch and other relatives of the Sinterklaas bombing it is also a day with a shadow. On December 6, 1942, he lost several family members during Operation Oyster, which was later renamed the Sinterklaas bombing. More than 150 innocent civilians are killed in this British attack on the Philipps factories in Eindhoven. Lambert Kliebisch’s grandmother does not survive the British attack. Just like his uncle, aunt and the only three-year-old little Theo. Lambert’s father is not in Eindhoven that Sunday afternoon but in nearby Woensel. A little later he finds terrible chaos in the city center. To commemorate the victims of the Sinterklaas bombing of 1942, Eindhoven will receive the Oyster monument in 2011, named after the British operation. Every year, a small commemoration is held here to commemorate that dramatic day in 1942 when more than 150 Eindhoven residents lost their lives.

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