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Nathalie te Wilt has adopted the grave of former Paisley solider Sergeant Andrew Wilson and is searching for his family ...
In a small corner of The Netherlands sits what many consider the most hallowed ground in all of Europe. For Ben Savelkoul, few places evoke emotions like Netherlands American Cemetery. Bishop T.D ...
Dutch 'Adopting' WWII American Soldiers Honors Their Sacrifice Published Sep 12, 2024 at 9:04 AM EDT Updated Sep 12, 2024 at 10:03 PM EDT By Amir Daftari ...
Hermes, a retired Dutch soldier who served in Bosnia during the Balkan wars of the 1990s, said the timing of their visit to the cemetery on Wednesday — 9/11 — was a reminder of why people ...
The archive, consisting of 32 million pages, includes about 425,000 mostly Dutch people who were investigated for collaboration with German occupiers during World War Two.
Most of them were in their 20s.” Savelkoul, a veteran of the Dutch Army, is not alone. Generations of Dutch have adopted each of the 8,288 graves and 1,722 names on the walls of the missing.
A Dutch project called 'War in Court' digitally released a list of names of nearly half a million suspected wartime Nazi collaborators on Thursday after the expiry of a law that had restricted ...