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Monument
Standing above Porta Santa Maria, visitors can find the only plaque in Lucca that includes the hammer and sickle, symbol...
William Thomas Buddell (1920) was one of at least twelve Canadians who were killed or who died during or as a result of ...
Story
The South Africans entered Prato on 6 September 1944, and on the same morning some partisan formations also reached the ...
Museum
The Polderhuis Museum is the museum about the history of Westkapelle. The eternal battle with the water behind the sea d...
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...
On Monday morning, April 23, 1945, the first Canadian soldier sticks his nose around the corner of Solwerderstraat in Ap...
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 13 April 1945, the resistance in Weststellingwerf launched an attack on two key bridges near De Blesse over the Linde...
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...
Landmark
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...
On 22 January 1945, members of the 'Sipo und SD' killed twenty men on the Woudweg in Dokkum. It was the largest executio...
Near Haskerhorne, a plane dropped valuable cargo on the night of 1 to 2 November 1944: two secret agents, Peter Tazelaar...
In the evening of 14 April, a Royal Canadian Dragoons patrol reached the area around the village which is now called Dam...
"That morning lasted longer than ever. I did nothing but stand at the window and talk. Down in the park a man told me th...
After the Allied airborne troops were defeated at Arnhem in September 1944, it took until March 1945 for the Allies to g...
Memorial 40-45 Kapelle is a 'museum at home'. It tells about the French Battle, unknown to many, that took place in Zeel...
The Emile Cady Monument pays homage to Corporal Emile Cady, who died here on 10 May 1940, during the first invasion of...
