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The Dutch resistance (Dutch: Nederlands verzet) to the German occupation of the Netherlands during World War II can be mainly characterized as non-violent. The primary organizers were the Communist Party , churches, and independent groups. [ 1 ]
Walraven "Wally" van Hall (10 February 1906 – 12 February 1945) was a Dutch banker and resistance leader during the occupation of the Netherlands in World War II. [1] [2] He founded the bank of the Resistance, which was used to distribute funds to victims of the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands and fund the Dutch resistance. [3]
The Resistance Museum (Dutch: Verzetsmuseum) is a museum located in the Plantage neighbourhood in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. [1] The Dutch Resistance Museum, chosen [ by whom? ] as the best historical museum of the Netherlands, [ 2 ] aims to tell the story of the Dutch people in World War II .
The Dutch resistance spirited newborn Flip Delmonte away after his parents were detained by Nazi occupiers of the Netherlands in World War II. Delmonte's mother was killed as soon as she arrived ...
Schaft was executed by Dutch Nazi officials on 17 April 1945. [5] Although at the end of the war there was an agreement between the occupier and the Binnenlandse Strijdkrachten ('Dutch resistance') to stop executions, she was shot dead three weeks before the end of the war in the dunes of Overveen, near Bloemendaal. [5]
Immediately after the Dutch capitulation, Kastein joined the Dutch resistance. On 17 May 1940 he attended the inaugural meeting of The Hague branch of the illegal CPN, at the home of Toon van der Kroft. During the meeting, the Spark Group was founded. Kastein was also one of the initiators of the medical Resistance.
In 1980, the Dutch Government instituted the Resistance Memorial Cross (Verzetsherdenkingskruis) to recognise resistance workers from World War II. Hoekstra was awarded the medal in 1984. The resistance group he was involved in was honoured in September 2024 with a monument in the town of Schipperskerk in Limburg.
The Binnenlandse Strijdkrachten (BS; English: 'Domestic Armed Forces'), fully the Nederlandse Binnenlandse Strijdkrachten (NBS), was a government-sanctioned union of Dutch resistance groups during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II, which had hardly cooperated until then.