Author Eric Alink Location Tilburg Theme Resistance She came from a weaving family and was familiar with a needle and thread, but Coba Pulskens had never needed to crochet a bedspread for her marital bed. “The boys don’t think I’m pretty enough”, is how she explained...
Author Irene van Kemenade Location The forest ranger’s house on the Vloeiweide Estate (Rijsbergen) Theme Resistance Radio Orange, 5 September 1944. With the message that: ‘The hour of liberation has struck’, Prime Minister Gerbrandy set in motion the wheels of the...
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...
