After a statue and a tulip, war hero Truus Wijsmuller now also has his own museum. At the Waagplein you can learn everything about the deeds of this Alkmaar woman: she saved thousands of Jewish children from Nazi hands just before the war.
Truus Wijsmuller-Meijer was born in 1896 on the Mient in the center of Alkmaar. At the age of 17 she moved to Amsterdam where she later – after the Kristallnacht – de Child transport set up. Ten thousand children fled Nazi-occupied Europe in this way.
Then in Alkmaar her background was discovered, work has been done to honor Truus. Two years ago, a life size statue unveiled by then mayor Piet Bruinooge. Together with the current mayor, he opened the Truus Wijsmuller Museum.
A museum that turns out to be no superfluous luxury; not all Alkmaar residents know her story. This can be seen in the video below.
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Truus and Bath
The pop-up museum about Truus Wijsmuller can be visited free of charge until June in the afternoons from Thursday to Sunday. In the same space, attention is also paid to the city link between Alkmaar and Bath in England. That city provided survival packages for Alkmaarders at the end of the Second World War.