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Snikzwaag Bell Tower
Snikzwaag Bell Tower
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Vakantiepark Tjermelân
Vakantiepark Tjermelân
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Cheung Kwong
Cheung Kwong
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Aan het Water - Waterlodge
Aan het Water - Waterlodge
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Varen met Steven
Varen met Steven
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Torenzicht
Torenzicht
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RCN de Potten - Mobil home de Klipper
RCN de Potten - Mobil home de Klipper
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De Appelhof - Tiny House aan het water- Type A
De Appelhof - Tiny House aan het water- Type A
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By Peek - Standaard appartement
By Peek - Standaard appartement
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Ruime familie villa
Ruime familie villa
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Museum 't Fiskershuske
Museum 't Fiskershuske
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Hotel Almenum
Hotel Almenum
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Plaque Blauwpoortsbrug
Plaque Blauwpoortsbrug
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The Wylde Boerinne
The Wylde Boerinne
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Koester Conceptstore
Koester Conceptstore
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Stoeten Jachtcharter
Stoeten Jachtcharter
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Jacobikerk Church
Jacobikerk Church
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Soestpolder Nature Reserve
Soestpolder Nature Reserve
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Koornbeurs Building
Koornbeurs Building
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1622lifestyle
1622lifestyle
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Zeilendeschip.nl
Zeilendeschip.nl
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Public toilet on Trekwei in Workum
Public toilet on Trekwei in Workum
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Dark Sky Park Terschelling
Dark Sky Park Terschelling
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Makkum War Memorial
Makkum War Memorial
By 16 April, the major part of Friesland had been liberated. But some important targets of the Canadians had not yet been achieved. They wanted to win the Frisian ports and the Head of the Afsluitdijk from the Germans as quickly as possible. But they would be hard fought. Both the ports and the Afsluitdijk were used by German soldiers to escape to North Holland.
As elsewhere in Friesland, the Canadians were helped by resistance fighters from the Dutch Domestic Armed Forces (N.B.S.) They suffered several casualties near Makkum. On 16 April, Schelte Bruinsma and Simon Sipma were killed in an attack on a farm in which the Germans had entrenched themselves. The next day, another group tried to occupy a bridge under Makkum. However, the Germans caught sight of them and in the ensuing gunfight, Rinnert Anema, Roelof van der Meer and Hendrik Postma were killed. Makkum was liberated on 18 April, as one of the last villages in Friesland.
The monument at the Buren in Makkum was unveiled in 1952 in commemoration of the members of the Dutch Domestic Armed Forces who were killed around the village during the struggle for liberation.
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