Author Birgit Barten Location St. Paul’s Abbey, Oosterhout Theme Resistance Churches in the Netherlands had healthy attendances during the war. Many churches, abbeys and monasteries condemned national socialism, and some even called for resistance. Dutch churches also...
Author Piet Snijders Location Leende Theme Resistance There was no wind that morning, thin patches of mist were lying low on the ground. It should have been a glorious day. Despite that, mayor Fried Manders cycled nervously across the Leenderhei heath on 6 July 1944....
Author Doret Eeken Location Molenstraat, Veghel Theme Resistance 1933. The year that Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany and the Nazis came to power. In that same year the German Paula Pottgiesser from Borken in Westphalia married Arnold van den Hoogenhoff from...
Author Piet Snijders Location Budel-Dorplein Theme Resistance That day – 5 September 1944 – will go down in history as Crazy Tuesday. The Allied advance was going smoothly when suddenly the Germans seemed to be in a hurry to get home. That was enough to make even the...
Author Irene van Kemenade Location Zuivelstraat, Bergen op Zoom Theme Occupation When the war broke out, Mientje Proost from Bergen op Zoom was a 19 year-old girl. She grew up in a close middle-class family and dreamt of becoming a nurse. The arrest On 2 May 1942,...
Location Den Bosch Author Eric Alink They were German according to their paperwork. in the 1930s they lived on the Wolvenhoek across the road from the tax office in Den Bosch (‘s-Hertogenbosch). Life was simple then, the only things to worry you were the tax return or...
Location Breda Author Eric Alink Wars are fond of ordinal numbers. But you only realise that after the second or third. In November 1918 Adrianus Brogtrop and Aurelia Nuyens were especially relieved: the Great War was over. Whether or not they lit up a cigar to...
Location Nieuwstraat, Demer, Prins Hendrikstraat, Eindhoven Author Laurie Wolffs Philips was founded in the centre of Eindhoven and developed into one of the largest companies in the Netherlands during the beginning of the 1930s. When the Second World War broke out in...
Location Kaatsheuvel, in the forests, where there is now a monument Author Birgit Barten On the table in front of Ed Post (81) is an aerial photograph of Kaatsheuvel. He points with his finger to where he grew up. He explains that as a child, he would sometimes play...
Location In the coal chambers at the church, next to the Biemans family home in Bergeijk Author Marlon van den Bergh The brutal violence of war didn’t touch everything. Often the children were able to play without a care. For them, the war was a great adventure,...
