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Resistance Memorial Udenhout

This memorial commemorates 14 resistance fighters who were executed on May 26th 1944 at this place. Dutch text on the memorial (translated to English):

May 26th 1944

it became silent in the dunes * JAN * silence, deep * in the sand * JACOB * fourteen young men * who fought * EVERT-GERARD * for the freedom * of our country * ROB * one, for he is still, * calls for all: * Willemien live! * JAN * still has it become * the dunes * JACOB * silence, deep * in the sand * WILLIAM * after twice * that life taking shot * WIM * in the earliest dawn * HARRY * two times seven barrels * ALBERT * fourteen fell * BAREND * twice * seven lives * HARMEN * for the freedom * PETRUS * of our land * CORNELIS *

jan noorda
petrus juten
cornelis waghto
willem oosterheert

jacob hage
albert meintser
joop de jong (incorrectly as 'jan de jong' on the memorial)

barend busnac
harmen van rossum
harry verbunt
evert gerard roes

wim berkelmans
rob van spaendonck
jacob everaers


More about the murder of these 14 men can read the article Execution site "Loonse en Drunense Duinen".

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Source

  • Text: TracesOfWar.nl
  • Photos: Frank Overman