Second World War

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Film director Steve McQueen on stage during the Dublin International Film Festival. 27 February 2024
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British film director to receive honorary doctorate from the University of Amsterdam
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Paratroopers land on the Ginkelse Heide during the commemoration of Operation Market Garden.
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80 years after Market Garden: PM honors Polish paratroopers, warns war is close again
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Operation 'market Garden' (the Battle For Arnhem)- 17 - 25 September 1944
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Operation Market Garden commemorated with paratroopers in Ede, Dutch king to attend
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Barbed wire fences and watchtowers from inside Camp Vught.
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Evacuation of Camp Vught commemorated, 80 years after fatal Mad Tuesday
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Dutch soldier; Flag of the Netherlands on military uniform
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Over 30,000 walkers expected at 77th Airborne March
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PVV parliamentarian Marjolein Faber during a Tweede Kamer debate on state of correctional facilities in the Nehterlands, 21 May 2024
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Dutch minister says Ukrainian refugees will go back to their country when it is safe
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Flowers for Holocaust Remembrance
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Netherlands to be host country of international Holocaust research bureau
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Photo of young Ellis Brandon in 1942, who died in July 2024 at the age of 101.
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Last known Engelandvaarder Ellis Brandon dead at 101
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The Council of State in The Hague
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Government advisor says the country has to make tough decisions regarding world policy
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Woman gives birth to baby in Velp
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Study claims that high home prices are connected to declining birth rates
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Etty Hillesum
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Foreign TV show about Jewish author Etty Hillesum will go into production
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Lucebert at the Exhibition "Lucebert in the Stedelijk" in the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam
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Museum to investigate newly found Nazi letters written by famous Dutch poet Lucebert
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A tram on line 24 alongside tram line 5 in front of Centraal Station in Amsterdam. 23 March 1941
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Memorials to be placed at three Amsterdam tram stops to honor Jews deported during WWII
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The national field of honor Loenen
Science
War victim's body identified after almost 82 years
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De Dokwerker, a sculpture and monument on the Jonas Daniël Meijerplein in Amsterdam in remembrance of the Februari-strike of 1941.
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February strike of 1941 commemorated in Amsterdam
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Graves in the Mierlo War Cemetery
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Most bombs above the Netherlands in the Second World War were by Allied forces
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Ernst Moltzer, sailor and descendant of gin and liqueur manufacturer Lucas Bols.
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After 82 years, author solves the mystery behind remains of resistance fighter in WWII
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Elderly woman working on a laptop
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Digital archive on forced labor of the Dutch during WWII visited over 400,000 times