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Resistance Fighters Memorial Amsterdam

(Netherlands, the - North Holland - Amsterdam)

In The New Eastern Cemetery in Amsterdam is a memorial to 18 resistance fighters.

Text on the monument:

FOR EIGHTEEN RESISTANCE FIGHTERS
WHICH THERE WERE 13
EXECUTED IN SOESTERBERG
ON 19 NOVEMBER 1942

THEY POINTED US THE WAY
WE WILL CONTINUE
WHERE NO ONE WANTS TO BE SLAVE
CAN NOT ARISE A TYRAN

The victims are:

Willem Carl Auener
Willem Bouhuis
Johan Christian Draaisma
Johannes Gerritse
Johannes Jacob Glas
Abraham Haspels
Pieter A. van Heijninge
Pieter Heuvel
Jacobus H. Kors
Wilhelm J. Kraan
Evert Ooijevaar
Thomas Prins
Cornelis G. Teesseling
Heiko Top
Karel Frederich Vastenhoud
Bertus Wolfswinkel
Antoon Wolfswinkel
Johan Frederik IJsberg

Source

• Text: Anneke Moerenhout
• Photos: Paul en Anneke Moerenhout