Etiket: Brabant used to be
Bomber crashed in the war near Vinkel, victims receive monument
Waiting for privacy settings… The monument at the Weerscheut in Vinkel. Eric Isted, father of Maureen Dean Next onePrevious 1/3 The unveiling of the monuments in Vinkel The Second World…
82 years after the disaster at Willemstad, Ingrid is looking for her father’s brother
Suppose your deceased father has a twin brother that he knew nothing about or never told you about. It seems like a strong story, but it is a question that…
Just a little while and the Spaniards will beat the Bergsche Battery
The Bergsche Battery re-anactment association is not doing well. “The association itself is doing well, but we will soon have no members left,” says Simon Corstjens. “If the decline in…
High Israeli award for resistance heroes Jan and Bets Heurkens
Jan and Bets Heurkens from Geldrop are posthumously awarded the Yad Vashem by Israel. They deserve this high Jewish award for their helping hand to Jewish children in World War…
No new roof but first bat boxes in Brabant’s largest church dome
Show Dolphijn on one of the footbridges at a height of 30 meters that he built together with other volunteers in the Brigida Dome (photo: private collection). Volunteer Antoon Ceelen…
Commemorating and celebrating our liberation at Omroep Brabant
On May 4, people who died during wars are traditionally commemorated, a day later, on May 5, we celebrate our liberation. Omroep Brabant will pay extensive attention to this in…
The fire in the Gertrudiskerk would change Robert’s life forever
The flames shot out of the Gertrudis Church on all sides, they are still burned into the retina of Robert Guinée (55). It is Sunday fifty years ago that as…
Count Floris de V returns after more than seven centuries in his Geertruidenberg
After centuries of absence, Floris de V, Count of Holland and Zeeland, returns to the city where he organized a major knight tournament during Easter 1279. “In the autumn he…
Somewhere in Brabant there is a silver treasure in a safe, where remains a secret
“This silver is normally in a safe and only a few people know where that safe is and it will remain that way”, says Frank van Loon of the foundation…
‘Mien where is my party animal’ is never forgotten, just like Karel Thiel
A bronze memorial plaque for Karel Thiel was unveiled on Thursday on the facade of Karel Thiel’s former music store in the Graafsewijk in Den Bosch. It is a tribute…