Liberation 75 years Heeze Leende Sterksel

During the war, the local leader of the NSB lived here. People in the current municipality of Heeze-...

According to the Loss Registers 1939 - 1945 of the Ministry of Defense, the following plane crashes ...

The Hoenderboom is of historical importance. Traditionally, five municipalities came together here: ...

After Operation Market Garden, the remaining ammunition was collected and taken to central destructi...

On the Vlaamseweg, in the bend of the road towards Someren, a monument reminds us of the place where...

In 1942 Providentia was evacuated by order of the German occupier. In that year a building was built...

On the former institutional site of Providentia, adjacent to its own cemetery, there is a cemetery w...

Out of gratitude that nothing happened to Sterksel himself during the war and that the conscript sol...

A temporary exhibition about the liberation can be viewed in village house De Valentijn Sterksel....

On September 3, 1944, a passenger train was on its way from Heerlen to Eindhoven. Already at Roermon...

On June 15, 1943, an explosion took place in one of the meadows at the Molenschut. Three young peopl...

In Leende there were of course more places where people in hiding stayed, including the address Stri...

In Leende, the so-called 'Dolinger Putten' were a well-known hiding place. In the area near ...

Shortly after the start of the occupation, the Germans set up a radar station in the Leenderbos near...

Mayor GJA Manders was transferred to camp Vught on 6 July 1944, together with a number of other mayo...

Just before the liberation, official F. Vogels was picked up at home by the Germans and taken to Ein...

On July 11, 1945, Leende's town hall went up in flames. A number of phosphorus shells were store...

According to the Ministry of Defense, a German Messerschmitt BF 109 of the 12th Staffel of the Jagdg...

War memorial expanded with some details of historical or tourist interest...

In Operation Market Garden, the Allies moved through a narrow corridor from Valkenswaard via Waalre ...

In the central reservation of the Muggenberg between the Oudenmolen and the Ten Borchwardlaan is a s...

During the war years, far from civilization, there was a farm here where the De Koning family lived ...

Nicasius was one of the so-called martyrs of Gorcum. His worship started in the nineteenth century. ...

In August 1939 the married Willem Verberne, also the father of six children, was called up for the m...

Doctor Theeuwen was a general practitioner in Heeze. The population usually called him Piet or Pietj...

The young mayor, esquire, mr. Theodore Willem Serraris, remained at his post after the occupation by...

In memory of the De Koning brothers, this street was named after them....

In the years after the war, the municipalities began to pay attention to war memorials. However, the...

In the years after the war, the municipalities began to pay attention to war memorials. However, the...

During the war, the municipal population register was regularly stored safely in the castle. As a re...

After the liberation, Allied soldiers camped in the woods behind the ice house and the castle. Here ...