1926 result(s)
Monument
More than half of the Jewish residents of Valkenburg (over forty people) were murdered in the extermination camps. They ...
The monument in Voerendaal commemorates the 34-year-old Belgian resistance fighter Marcel Le Chantre. On 2 September 194...
On the liberation day of Banholt, 13 September 1944, another joyful event took place in the village. A resistance plaque...
Museum
The Historical Collection of Ground-Based Air Defence (Historische Collectie Grondgebonden Luchtverdediging, HCGLVD) was...
Battlefield
When the final Canadian-British attack on the German positions at the Sloedam was successful, the advance to Middelburg ...
Story
At the end of April 1945, German soldiers opened a cupboard on the farm of the Dijkema family on Geefsweersterweg betwee...
IWM London is one of the five branches of the Imperial War Museum in England. It comprises different exhibitions present...
Audiospot
Before the War, Jan van Hoof was active in the Scouts and he naturally gravitated to the Resistance. He spent months obs...
During the war, Jakob (Jaap) Klok ended up in the resistance in Dantumadeel, where he played an important role. At the t...
Landmark
The Channel Islands were the only British Isles to be occupied by German forces during WWII. The Islands of Guernsey bec...
The village of Scharsterbrug and the bridge over the Scharster Rhine were important to the German defenders. Both were s...
The Channel Islands were the only British territory to be occupied by German forces during WWII. Islanders lived under G...
Fortification
Sark Island, one of the Islands of Guernsey, was occupied by German forces in 1940 for a period of almost five years. Wh...
On 12 April, a Staghound of the Royal Canadian Dragoons drove into an ambush at Oldeholtpade. Private Wilfred Berry was ...
An estimated 1,800 Dutch citizens, the so-called Engelandvaarders, attempted to escape to England during World War Two. ...
Until 1943, Rabbijn Maarsenplein, later renamed after one of the victims, was the heart of The Hague's Jewish quarter. T...
The Jachtslot de Mookerheide estate is very attractive, a fact already recognised at the beginning of the previous centu...
Out of fear of being arrested by the Canadians, a group of SD and SS men fled from Groningen to Zoutkamp on 15 April 194...
In October 1944, Canadian private Patrick Wright is involved in fierce fighting in the vicinity of Huijbergen. He is onl...
In September 1944, after four years of relative peace, the villages of Overasselt and Nederasselt became the site of the...
On the 17th of September 1944, countless parachutists and gliders with military equipment landed here in Groesbeek. Oper...
In 1945, Operation Veritable was the beginning of the so-called Rhineland Offensive. The Allies wanted to attack the Ger...
From October 1944, the parsonage of Gasselte is the headquarters of the National Sozialistisches Kraftfahr Corps (NSKK)....
The final years of the war are tough on the people of Huissen. Hundreds are killed and wounded during heavy allied bombi...