Skip to main content
Home

Main navigation

  • Top stories
  • Health
  • Crime
  • Politics
  • Business
  • Tech
  • Culture
  • Sports
  • Weird
  • 1-1-2
Image
Jewish people fled to the vacation house in Warnsveld woods during the Second World War
Jewish people fled to the vacation house in Warnsveld woods during the Second World War - Credit: Nederlands Openluchtmuseum / Nederlands Openluchtmuseum - License: All Rights Reserved
Tech
Science
Warnsveld
Achterhoek
Zutphen
Jewish refugees
Second World War
Nazi regime
Sunday, January 16, 2022 - 14:00
Share this:
  • facebook
  • twitter
  • linkedin
  • whatsapp
  • reddit

Second World War Jewish refuge to be displayed in Dutch Open Air Museum

A vacation house used as a refuge for Jewish people during the Second World War will be transported to Arnhem and displayed in the Dutch Open Air Museum. Since 2018, the vacation house has been stored in a barn in Zutphen.

The house was built in 1936 in the Warnsveld woods and was intended to be a vacation house. Yet, after the Kristallnacht in 1938, Jewish people fled to the house to seek refuge from the Nazi regime.

The house belonged to the family Gies who welcomed Jewish people fleeing from Germany.

Construction workers now dismantled the house to transport it to Arnhem. "We will rebuild it here and we will tell the story of Jewish refugees in this house. We tell this story so that everyone knows what happened in the past," Udo Feitsma from the Open Air Museum told Omroep Gelderland. "We will look at every part and do repairs wherever needed," Feitsma said.

Visitors to the Open Air Museum can view the hideout from September onwards, according to the museum.

Deze week kwam het vakantiehuisje van de familie Gies uit 1937 in delen richting Arnhem. We gaan de verhalen vertellen die erbij horen. Verhalen van verzetsmensen en joodse vluchtelingen. Het huisje wordt opgebouwd in deelgebied 't Veld. Lees hier meer 👉 https://t.co/g8KGOhV4IS pic.twitter.com/nTNQ8iresJ

— Openluchtmuseum (@Openluchtmuseum) January 15, 2022

Follow us:

Latest stories

  • Effective cancer vaccine for dogs an "important step" for human treatment: Amsterdam researchers
  • Child care in “permanent crisis” with staff shortages in the thousands
  • Councils say young people need to be involved in policy-making
  • Unlikely that Ukraine will become a candidate for EU membership: Dutch PM
  • Monkeypox found in six people in the Netherlands so far, RIVM says
  • Many young people struggling to juggle everything after lockdown

Top stories

  • Monkeypox found in six people in the Netherlands so far, RIVM says
  • Chaotic scenes at Schiphol: 450 flights delayed, 75 flights cancelled amid staff shortage
  • €40 mil. extra to arm vulnerable regions against organized crime
  • Dutch home prices still climbing, but slowing down
  • Body found in burning car in Limburg village
  • Up to three weeks of quarantine after contact with monkeypox patients

© 2012-2022, NL Times, All rights reserved.

Footer menu

  • Privacy
  • Contact
  • Partner content