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Pomnik
During the war, Jakob (Jaap) Klok ended up in the resistance in Dantumadeel, where he played an important role. At the t...
Historia
The impending liberation triggered a huge movement of Nazi sympathisers. Fearing a day of reckoning, collaborators sough...
Miejsce zainteresowania
On 11 November 1944, pilots of the Royal Canadian Air Force, based at Welschap airfield near Eindhoven, were ordered to ...
Friesland was well aware of the dire food situation in the Dutch cities during the last winter of the war. Harrowing sto...
The Allies brought freedom. But in return they also took something with them. According to Lawyer Vos from Appingedam: '...
For Appingedam the real misery only starts after the liberation when the Germans shell the town with artillery. Seven th...
In the early morning of Tuesday 28 April 1945, the Canadian Perth Regiment captures the German anti-aircraft battery Nan...
At the end of April 1945, German soldiers opened a cupboard on the farm of the Dijkema family on Geefsweersterweg betwee...
A Canadian Bren Carrier, an armored vehicle equipped with a heavy machine gun, hits a mine on the evening of April 23, 1...
On Saturday 24 August 1940 there was plenty of walking along the seawall above Uithuizen. For example, by farmer Jacob S...
Official American Missing Air Crew reports state that on 30 December 1944, three U.S. Army Air Force P-47 Thunderbolts c...
On their way through Friesland, the Canadians were severely hampered by the fact that the Germans had blown up a lot of ...
On 13 April 1945, the resistance in Weststellingwerf launched an attack on two key bridges near De Blesse over the Linde...
Muzeum
In this monumental town hall complex, the past comes alive in special collection presentations and notable key figures, ...
Major Jean Prosper Gautier was the commander of the Squadron of the Royal Canadian Dragoons that entered Dokkum with its...
On the day of the Dokkum’s liberation, a deadly tragedy unfolded at the southern access bridge. The Allies were approach...
The liberation of northeast Friesland was not achieved without a struggle. The Dutch Domestic Armed Forces (NBS) and Can...
A town prison since 1808, St. George's prison housed numerous anti-fascists during the war. ...
In 2014, a plaque commemorating the contribution of Italian women to the Resistance was placed near the municipality and...
The Casa degli Oblati is one of the symbolic places of civil resistance in Lucca. From here, Don Arturo Paoli and his br...
The Church of St. Anne, just outside the gate of the same name, was the last refuge of the German occupiers after the Li...
The convent attached to the church became the headquarters of the Republican National Guard in 1943 and as such a place ...
Ponte dei Frati (Friars' Bridge), which connects the city to the hamlet of Guamo, was the scene of one of the most impor...
On the morning of 5 September 1944, a patrol of African-American soldiers entered Lucca through Porta San Pietro. The t...
