Renswoude Memorial, Renswoude - NL
Posted by: MoVeD
N 52° 04.483 E 005° 32.263
31U E 673911 N 5772387
Monument for the villagers who died during WWII because of their activities in the resistance.
Waymark Code: WMJQKA
Location: Utrecht, Netherlands
Date Posted: 12/19/2013
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Neuengamme is a village near Hamburg. In WWII there was a concentration camp. 106.000 pepople were brought there from which 55.000 died.
Wobbelin was a Neuengamme subcamp from february to may 1945. 1.000 out of 6.000 died there.
'1940-1945
AAN HEN DIE VIELEN (For those who fell)
5 MEI 1946.'
De tekst op de linkerzijde van de zuil luidt: (left)
'S. LAGERWEIJ GEB. 16 JAN. 1898
OVERL. TE NEUEN GAMME 11 MAART 1945
G. LAGERWEIJ GEB. 8 DEC. 1899
OVERL. TE NEUEN GAMME HALF MAART 1945
G. v.d. BURGT GEB. 20 FEB. 1898
OVERL. TE WOBBELIN 17 MAART 1945.'
De tekst op de rechterzijde van de zuil luidt: (right)
'G. KOETSIER GEB. 21 OCT. 1905
GEFUS. TE AMSTERDAM 22 FEB. 1944 (shot)
J. v.d. HAM GEB. 4 MEI 1919
OVERL. TE NEUEN GAMME 12 FEB. 1945.'
Date of Dedication: 05/05/1946
Property Permission: Public
Website for Waymark: [Web Link]
Commemoration: Remembering resistance fighters who paid the ultimate price for our freedom
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