Tour de Drenthe coming with 4-day event for amateur cyclists
The Fiets4Daagse will have plenty of opportunities for people to cycle around Drenthe's gorgeous countryside This week, the province of ...
Tag: Westerbork
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte apologises for Dutch governments actions during the Holocaust
During the Second World War, the Netherlands was run by a Nazi 'Reichskommissar' Today is the 75th Anniversary of the ...
Auschwitz commemoration in Westerbork: names of 102,000 victims are read aloud
The ceremony is to commemorate the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp In the Camp Westerbork Remembrance Center in the ...
Remarkable souvenir after 76 years back to Camp Westerbork in Drenthe: cuddly donkey for children
A "cuddly donkey" used by children who were detained in the war in Camp Westerbork, has returned to this camp ...
Director Kamp Westerbork Dirk Mulder gets High distinction from Austrian Ambassador
Dirk Mulder, who recently retired as director of the Westerbork Camp Remembrance Center in Drenthe, received the Honour of Merit ...
Exhibition ‘Opgejaagd’ (hunted down) at the former WW2 transit camp, Kamp Westerbork, extended
The ‘Opgejaagd' exhibition (hunted down) at the Kamp Westerbork Remembrance Center will be extended, because has been so well attended. Over ...
Night for the Refugee walk from Westerbork to Groningen cancelled due to threats
The planned walking route from the Westerbork Memorial Centre in Drenthe to Groningen during the Night for the Refugee on ...
Jewish history of the Northern Netherlands Part II: Occupation and the Holocaust
Part II: Occupation and the Holocaust After Adolf Hitler became the leader of Germany in 1933, Dutch Jews still continued ...
Three dead, one seriously injured in Hooghalen crash (update)
Three young men were killed and one were seriously injured in a single vehicle crash in the Drenthe town of ...
“Stories of Hope”: resistance and solidarity during the Holocaust
Following a visit to the Westerbork deportation camp in Drenthe, students from the honours programme at the Hanze University of ...