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Story
The Swedish ships Dagmar Bratt and Noreg arrived in the port of Delfzijl on 28 January 1945. The holds of the ships bulg...
Hennie Oosterhuis is twelve during the liberation. She cycled behind her friends to the entrance of Uithuizermeeden. The...
The Germans decided in September 1944 to make the road to Appingedam and Delfzijl impassable for the approaching advance...
Fortification
On June 2, 1940, the coffee cups on the table were shaking in many households of the inhabitants of Delfzijl. For the fi...
On the night of ½ May 1945, Private Wilson Lewis Lemmon of the Pioneer Platoon was attached to the D Company of the Iris...
Monument
The Church of St Joseph was destroyed by the retreating Nazis. After reconstruction, a bas-relief by Serafino Beconi ded...
Landmark
A plaque on the façade of the Palazzo Littorio in Camaiore is dedicated to the people who were killed in the August 1944...
The monument to the Japanese American soldier inaugurated in Pietrasanta in 2000 is a tribute to all the Allied soldiers...
After his release from prison camp Wilhelmshaven, resistance fighter and helmsman of the Abel Tasman Henk Brouwers from ...
The monument on the wall of the former town hall of the municipality of Bergharen was created in memory of mayor Jacques...
The monument recalls two important moments in Dutch history: The May days of 1940 and the preparations for Operation Mar...
There are 3 river casemates in Lent: Lent-West (near the railway track), Lent-Middle (at the access ramp to the road bri...
On 12 April, a Staghound of the Royal Canadian Dragoons drove into an ambush at Oldeholtpade. Private Wilfred Berry was ...
Cemetery
In Wolvega's general cemetery, Allied honorary graves remind residents of the seven fallen crew members of the Lancaster...
A strong example of resistance took place just before the liberation of the province of Friesland. On 12 April 1945, the...
The monument commemorates the Allied bombing of 28 April 1944 that was aimed at destroying the Porrettana railway bridge...
The Psychiatric Hospital (the PZ) in Franeker was and is a household name in Friesland. During the occupation, besides i...
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...
A plaque placed in 2014 commemorates the terrible bombing on 6 January 1944 in which 25 people lost their lives....
