“The shortest route to Berlin was via Hoogeveen and the canal was a line for planes to follow. Shots were fired at everything that sailed,” said the historian. He searched archives such as the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
He shared all information with Local Interest. If Hoogeveen, Hollandscheveld and Nieuwlande have a monument, ‘why not Noordscheschut?’, the group thought. And now the memorial seems to be getting closer.
Local Interest finds it especially important that the stories are not lost to future generations. It should also become a memorial place for May 4.
And that Schutse Bengel that was sounded when disaster threatened? It now hangs in the tower of the Reformed Church along the Zwarte Dijkje. Since the clock played such a role, Local Interest wants to make a replica for the monument.