Wiel van der Randen
Wiel van der Randen was during the shooting present at the Dam. He was standing, with others, at the roof of the vicarage of the Nieuwe Kerk. Before, during and…
The War Illustrated
THE DRAMATIC LIBERATION OF AMSTERDAM By L. MARSLAND GANDER who, as The Daily Telegraph War Correspondent, entered Amsterdam with the first British troops of the 1st Canadian Army on May 7,…
Radio speech Prins Bernhard. May 7 1945
After the signing of the capitulation at Wageningen, Prins Bernhard, Commander of Chief of the Domestic Armed Forces held the following speech for the liberated country: Fellow Countrymen! The hour of…
Tonny van Renterghem
Tonny van Renterghem (Amsterdam, June 28, 1919- Sequim, WA, July 19, 2009) was a Dutch writer and researcher and technical advisor in the film industry, who during World War II…
Wilf and Margriet Gildersleeve
Canadian soldier Wilf Gildersleeve had been a radio signaler, starting in Sicily in 1943. During the liberation of Holland in 1945, he was a platoon commander in the Seaforth Highlanders.…
Mr. G. van Hall
The week before the liberation it was suddenly very quiet in our town Laren-Blaricum. The days before we heard constant gunshots, but it suddenly stopped from one day to the…
The last act of terror
De Spiegel, May 7 1955 On that notorious May 7th I had made an appointment, which will stay with me for the rest of my life. In the disturbance of…