World War II

During World War II, Aalten took in around 800 children from bombed-out Rotterdam.

Key resistance leader during World War II

In 1945, the Houwers family received a letter from a French person in hiding.

Summary from ‘Aalten in Wartime’ by J.G. ter Horst.

In memory of the crash of a British bomber.

Jewish ‘foundling’, born in hiding

Council Member and Alderman

A conversation about meat, hiding from the Nazis, and football (1993)

On February 8, 1945, a mistake bombing took place in Dale.

On 30 March 1945, an air-raid shelter in Barlo was hit by a bomb.

March 24, 1945 bombs fell over Aalten. With terrible consequences.

On 24 February 1945, bombs fell in the Kruisstraat, with disastrous consequences.

In gratitude for Aalten’s hospitality during World War II.

Founded in Aalten during the liberation of the Achterhoek.

At the end of World War II, an emergency hospital was established in Aalten.

In memory of seven resistance fighters who died.

In WW2, the occupying forces established a school for military paratroopers in Aalten.

Air defence installation built by the Germans during World War II

Commemorative column for the soldiers from Aalten who fought at the Grebbeberg in May 1940.

Her Majesty remained for more than half an hour in the home of “Oome Jan”.

Report of a session of the Military Court in Aalten, 1945.

In 1943, The Hague native Pieter Schaap went into hiding in Dale and Lintelo.

A 19-kilometre journey past eleven historical locations.

Acting (NSB) mayor of Aalten from 1944 to 1945

General practitioner in Aalten who died during World War II

In 1936, NSB leader Anton Mussert gave a lecture in Aalten

De Graafschapper, 18 May 1945

An expression of gratitude from former people in hiding to the residents of Aalten and

In memory of the British officer who died after a parachute jump.

Exhibition in the Sociëteit in Aalten, 1940

Pasopweg (no longer extant)

Tragically killed as a result of a bombing

Aalten

During WW2, one in five residents of Aalten was in hiding.

In memory of the three children who died while playing in 1945.

Package from Neuengamme returns belongings to owner (1950).

Two cousins meet on the boat after not having seen each other for 13 years.

These stones are laid in front of addresses from which people were deported by the

An uninhabited farm in De Heurne became a center of resistance in 1944.

On Sunday, January 30, 1944, SS men raided two churches in Aalten.

On 30 March 1945, Aalten was liberated by British Grenadier and Irish Guards.

During WW2, Achterhoekers sent food to the starving west.

For all fellow citizens who died during the occupation as a result of acts of

List of names from the Aaltensche Courant, 4 May 1945

The Jewish couple Landau were executed and buried by the resistance during WWII. But where?