Etiket: graves
Rain washes away sand at the Heeze cemetery, cracks and holes around graves
Some graves have become crooked due to subsidence Manager Hans Teeven checks all graves with a group of volunteers This sign has been hanging at the cemetery in Heeze since…
Graves in Nieuw-Vennep robbed again and again: relatives feel powerless
The items that relatives leave at the De Lindenhof cemetery in Nieuw-Vennep are stolen all the time. “You feel powerless,” says Yentl Meijer, who, together with her mother, regularly lays…
The oldest graves in Zuidwolde are given protected status, partly because of special mushrooms
The municipality of De Wolden will now protect part of the cemetery against which there were strong protests before its construction. When King William I decreed in 1825 that every…
Night route in Montjuïc among the noble graves of the dead bourgeoisie
A woman in period dress, from the 19th century, guides visitors. It is seven in the afternoon on Thursday and this is the first of the shifts that will visit…
Commonwealth War Graves Commission is going even closer…
At the Ypres Reservoir Cemetery, representatives of four custom companies signed a declaration of intent to work even closer with the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. This concerns WAAK from Kuurne,…
Making graves and sheltering from rockets: a holiday in Israel takes a completely different turn for Emmenaar
After he has comforted Ayelet, and a rocket flies overhead, they take refuge in a concrete bus shelter with the other volunteers at the cemetery. You would think that such…
LOOK. “We will be sent to our graves with this”: Russian soldier complains about “brand new grenades” that cannot explode | War Ukraine and Russia
“Look what we got,” the Russian soldier starts his video. “Here’s a brand new grenade, but there’s no TNT in it. We have received dozens of such grenades,” he continues.…
Political scientist with Moroccan roots about slow aid: “In mountain villages, residents are digging mass graves themselves”
Criticism of the approach to the natural disaster in Morocco is increasing. The kingdom is allowing foreign aid at a sluggish pace, while dozens of mountain villages are still deprived…
Volunteers use cork and brushes to renovate more than 2000 graves in Meppel: ‘There are still 500 next’
There are about 20,000 tombstones in the cemetery. A number go back to 1811. “It is an important place because there are many people from Meppel, and many well-known people…
Wall around Jewish cemetery may crumble so that everyone can see the graves
The meter-high wall around the Jewish cemetery in Eindhoven may crumble, so that everyone will soon be able to see the ancient graves from the public road. A bulldozer will…