Anton Heijmerikx is still amazed. He has been living in Wijhe since 2014 and is very active in the Second World War in his new place of residence. For years he lived under the assumption that one Canadian soldier had died during the liberation of Wijhe: Hugh Henry Anderson.
Until January 1 of this year. On that day, the diary of Carolina Wijers at the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation (NIOD) is suddenly released. During the war, Wijers was employed as a housekeeper by vet Gerhard Brink, who lived on the corner of Oranjelaan and Stationsweg in Wijhe, right opposite the current war memorial.