Author Eric Alink Location Aarle-Rixtel Theme Occupation At the beginning of 1940, Aarle-Rixtel – now in the municipality of Laarbeek – was a quiet little village with 3056 inhabitants. Tracks in the roads led to three places: the church, the pub, or the bell foundry....
Author Jack Didden Location the poplar woodlands along the road from Nederwetten to Nuenen (the Broekdijk), close to the intersection with the Evert de Vriesdreef. Theme Occupation For many people in Brabant, it was the Polish who were the real liberators, as well as...
AuthorMarlon van den BerghLocationOp ’t Hout in Geldrop, in the extension of the Bogardeind street.ThemeOccupation The Derks family, comprising sixteen children, eight boys and eight girls, lived in ’t Hout in the town of Geldrop. The family was not well off and the...
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...
