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Podcast about Annie Post-Salomons, Singing Through Hell, Part 3
From September 12, 1944 to April 30, 1945, the Agfa commando was one of the 169 outside commandos of Dachau concentration camp. In total about seven hundred women were interned…
Podcast about Annie Post-Salomons, Singing Through Hell, Part 2
The women have expressed their solidarity with a fellow prisoner, Non Verstegen, who is punishing a traitor in their ranks. She gets buckets of water over her and her braids…
RTV Drenthe comes with podcast about resistance woman Annie Post-Salomons
Hannechien ‘Annie’ Post-Salomons was captured by the Germans during World War II and suffered numerous atrocities. Yet the resistance woman from Nieuw-Buinen kept her jaws closed. Under the title ‘Singing…
Is Queen Wilhelmina’s fur coat in the Brands museum?
A sandwich monkey story or is it really true? Did Queen Wilhelmina forget her fur coat during one of her visits to Drenthe and did it come into the possession…
Stevens or Jansen: will the real sheepherder from Zweeloo please stand up?
Who is in Vincent van Gogh’s sketch of the church in Zweeloo? Historian Albert Metselaar thought he had found the answer last week, but now another name is popping up.…
‘Write to a dead person?’ is personal theater about grandfather and war
“In my grandmother’s experience, my grandfather was dead, and it also took 14 days, without messages, before my grandfather returned,” continues IJmker. “The tension has been enormous. He has experienced…
Operation Amherst once again commemorated: ‘We now see how important freedom is’
After two years, there will finally be another major commemoration of Operation Amherst next week. The 33 French soldiers who died in this military action at the end of the…
Search for unknown family story in podcast ‘The arrest of a Coevorer resistance group
The family knew that Willem Mantel had been part of the resistance in Coevorden during the Second World War. But nobody really knew what he was doing. Podcast maker Freek…
Documentary about abuses in Camp Westerbork after the war
KRO-NCRV has made a documentary about the abuses that took place in transit camp Westerbork after the capitulation of the Germans in May 1945. The film War in Westerbork: April-September…
Drenthe Then Podcast: the OD-action, part 4: NSB and resistance lived next door to each other
Such a young boy was also present at the interrogations in the Landwachthuis in Coevorden, Finke agrees. “Yes, Herman Holties, he came from Weijerswold and was just under 18 years…