Location Molenstraat, Oirschot Author Liesbeth Sparks How can I get hold of reliable news? This question became more urgent for many Dutch citizens as the war years progressed. Slowly but surely fewer sources of news in the Netherlands were autonomous. So it meant...
Location Beekvliet hostage camp Author Birgit Barten On 4 May 1942, 460 prominent Dutch citizens were arrested. They included politicians, professors, clerics, musicians, lawyers and writers, who were taken hostage by the Germans to help them tighten their grip on the...
Location Oss Station / Markt 25, ’s-Hertogenbosch Author Liesbeth Sparks Some Dutch people fought in the German army: it’s estimated there were about 22,000 during the Second World War. These Dutchmen reported voluntarily for the German Waffen-SS. The Waffen-SS fought...
Author Hannie Visser-Kieboom Location Hoogstraat 38, Werkendam (8 May1945) Theme Occupation “Oh darling, you will understand that it has been a difficult time, I never heard from you. It was torture, until I received your wonderful letter. Oh sweetheart, I am so happy...
Locatie Eindhoven/Deurne Schrijver Piet Snijders After Hitler had overwhelmed the Netherlands in May 1940, every Dutch person was faced with a choice: resist against the Neuordnung (New Order), accept the situation, or collaborate. This choice would later be seen to...
Location Oisterwijk Author Eric Alink There must have been a deadly silence in the changing rooms of the PAZO football club on 2 May 1940. Teammates Koos and Alfred were probably also staring at the ground. There had seldom been such a crushing defeat, losing 0-8 to...
Location Herzogenbusch Concentration Camp bunker, Vught Author Eric Alink Page 2, top left. “Mr and Mrs H. Arts-Woestenbergh hereby announce the birth of their daughter Susanne.” It was a modest family announcement in the Nieuwe Tilburgse Courant on 13 November 1916....
Locatie Tilburg Schrijver Tjeu Cornet During the occupation, hundreds of Dutch police officers actively served the German cause as members of the NSB, Rechtsfront or German SS. The assiduous, brutal nature with which these Jew hunters went about their work was...
Author Eric Alink Location Gemert Theme Invasion May 1940 Hearts have been chalked on me, but I’ve also been spat on. Many things have been spilt over me: hailstones, beer, confetti. Even shell cartridges, although the war did not scare me away. Because Gemert is in...
Author Jack Didden en Tjeu Cornet Location Monument in Grave and house in Nuland Theme Invasion May 1940 On Friday 10 May 1940, a few hours after the German invasion, Dutch troops blew up the bridge over the River Maas at Grave to resist the Germans. That afternoon,...
