by Susan | Feb 13, 2023 | Monuments
This artwork, the Door of War and Peace, is the conclusion of a many-year restoration of the Sint-Laurenskerk, built between 1449 and 1525. After the bombing of May 14, 1940, only part of the tower and parts of the outer walls of the church remained standing. This old...
by Susan | Apr 18, 2022 | Monuments
The February Strike (Dutch: Februaristaking) was a general strike in the German-occupied Netherlands in 1941, during World War II, organized by the then-outlawed Communist Party of the Netherlands in defense of persecuted Dutch Jews and against the anti-Jewish...
by Susan | Feb 21, 2022 | Monuments
The ‘Monument for Freedom, Tolerance and Peace’ in Oss was erected in memory of residents of this southern Dutch city who died as a soldier or resistance fighter in the second world war or during police actions in the former Dutch East Indies. The names of...
by Susan | Jun 28, 2021 | Monuments
Although this statue in the Grote Mark in Breda is referred to as a peace statue it is actually a tribute to the liberation of the city on October 29, 1944 by the 1st Polish Armoured Division commanded by General Stanisław Maczek, who is buried in a nearby military...
by Susan | Mar 22, 2021 | Monuments
This statue is on the station square in Hilversum, a city between Utrecht and Amsterdam. The statue is named “Monument for Tolerance,” but it is popularly called “the hands.”The monument of concrete and glass was created by Edo van Tetterode....
