Etiket: WWII
Borger reflects on the end of WWII: ‘We can also embrace war’
A special guest at the commemoration in Borger was Sabine Eisenring from Leiden. She is on holiday in Zweeloo and was therefore unable to attend the national Indies commemoration in…
WWII veterans not to commemorate war due to Schiphol chaos and corona Inland
That confirms a spokeswoman for the Best Defense Foundation, from Washington. “We have indeed decided not to let them travel,” she reports to De Telegraaf. “We do not want to…
Historic low water level in US reservoir exposes secrets: ship from WWII and corpse mafia murder | Abroad
Lake Mead, the largest water reservoir in the United States, is now at its lowest level since it was filled in 1937. That has literally brought secrets to the surface…
Five pilots of crashed plane from WWII reburied | news item
News item | 23-06-2022 | 14:45 Exactly 81 years after their death, five Czechoslovak soldiers, who died in the night of 22 to 23 June 1941 near Nieuwe Niedorp, are…
Martin manages the cemeteries where five soldiers from WWII are buried
For twenty years, administrator Martin Stumpel (43) has been taking care of the more than 2400 graves at the British and Canadian cemeteries in Bergen op Zoom. On Thursday, the…
Belgian heroine who saved 300 Jewish children during WWII, dies at age 100 | Inland
Geulen was a young teacher working in a Brussels school when the Second World War broke out. When a raid was to take place in the boarding school during the…
Tielt doctor collects painful testimonies about WWII in book
Tielt doctor collects painful testimonies about WWII in book As a general practitioner, he regularly heard painful experiences and traumas that people told someone for the first time. The result…
Visit Hideout Museum Nieuwlande doubled by documentary
The number of visitors to the Hideout Museum de Duikelaar in Nieuwlande has doubled since the commemoration of the dead on 4 May. According to the board, this has to…
Jewish relatives call book ‘Empty places’ about cold treatment of Jewish survivors of WWII in Groningen a smokescreen
The book, presented in the Folkingestraat synagogue at the end of April, reveals how bureaucratic and cold the city treated Jewish residents after the war. The Jewish relatives Martijn Jacobus…
War memorials De Wolden bundled in cycling route
From a self-designed monument with a listening post to a boulder, all war memorials in the municipality of De Wolden have been mapped and poured into a bicycle route. However,…