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Janny van Duijnen-Vink *1935 May 7 1945 What do you know as a 80 year old woman about what happened 70 years ago? I will never forget that afternoon and it also had a great influence in my life. But… (READ MORE)

H.J. Mekkelholt (*1921) Two days after the liberation there is a liberation party at the Dam that results in a blood massacre.For Mr. Mekkelholt this day gets eventually a positive turn. As so many young men he receives an appeal… (READ MORE)

Hedda van Gennep *1929  Hedda van Gennep went together with friends  to the Dam, to celebrate, just like many others. She tells us: I was 16 years old and we walked at the Dam when the windows of the Grote Club… (READ MORE)

Kees Stuyfersant *1934 and Reggie Stuyfersant *1937 Via their brother Andre we came in contact with Kees Stuyfersant. May 7 1945 is for the family a memorable day. The children Stuyfersant walked daily from the Nieuwmarkt to the Prinsenschool and they… (READ MORE)

I am from the generation after the war, the baby-boomers. Maybe my story doesn’t belong here. I wasn’t even born yet. But I’m shaped by it and touched. Every year the liberation will be commemorated, and by that the story… (READ MORE)

I saw the bloody hands of the victims I remember as a little boy, that we were there on the hand of my aunt, on the day in question. We lived on the Kloveniersburgwal 45 and walked via the Nieuwe… (READ MORE)

On May 7 1945, I (10 years old) went with my mother and sister(13 years old) to the Dam because the nursing staff would sing, according to the information of my aunt. In my opinion we were at the Dam… (READ MORE)

Reverent Rients Dijkstra was on May 7 1945 in the NIeuwe Kerk, he published his story in the book “O, dat stuwend Amsterdam”.           On May 7 1945, after the liberation, when the Mininstery held his… (READ MORE)

As a former Amsterdam citizen of 84 years old, I have nasty memories of the shooting at the Dam on May 7 1945. It is my story, how I experienced it. On the day in question, as a boy of 14 years… (READ MORE)

On May 7 1945 I was 12 years old. I lived at the Hoogstraat, in line of the Dam, across the Zuiderkerk. We knew that there was a lot to do at the Dam because of the liberation, the mayor… (READ MORE)

Hans Capers sent us this report about the incident on May 7 1945. At home nobody spoke about it; the subject was taboo. He is now 75 years old and he wants to write down his life on paper for… (READ MORE)

As a result of your articles about the shooting at the Dam, the following. I was also at the Dam, as a little boy of 7 years old, when the shooting started. I was a thin skinny little boy and got… (READ MORE)

My mother was 24 years old and wrote a letter to her brother Willem. She lived with her parents at the end of the war at the corner of the Dam and Damstraat. Her brother Willem (just 13 years old) was… (READ MORE)

Jopie Kamstra-Schnater was the neighbour girl of Jurrianus Lambertus Stad. She read an article in the Noord Hollands Dagblad, June 13 2013, and by her son Kees she came in contact with the Foundation Memorial 2015 for victims of Dam May… (READ MORE)

As a boy of 16 years old I was an eyewitness of the shooting at the Dam. Before this tragedy started, there was an incident that is less known. I stood not far away from the Grote Club when in the… (READ MORE)

Mentioned below is a part of the speech that K.Schippers held on May 4 2010 in the Nieuwe Kerk The arrival of jazz “May 7 1945, 65 years ago, we are liberated. At the Dam, in front of the Nieuwe… (READ MORE)

During our research to victim Straatmijer we came in contact via an appeal in the Oud Amsterdammer [local newspaper] with Joop Straatmeijer (extra E).  He was also at the Dam when the shooting started. “I lived as a 10 year old… (READ MORE)

Mrs.  E.J.B.M. Sneeboer-Bense *1904  †1987 Mrs. B.Sneeboer-Bense was told that her husband would come home, he was set to work, and she was looking for him in Amsterdam. At the Dam she witnessed the shooting. It’s unknown who started the shooting. She stood… (READ MORE)

Roswitha Greefkes approached us about a special story of Han Hutjes, also a victim of the Dam shooting: What I know is that this young man saved the life of a five year old boy who stood in the middle… (READ MORE)

Bep Vink, born in 1922, was during the war Commander of the Red Cross and joined the air brigade. Recently we received this message from her son Lou Bakker: My mother recently deceased (Bep Bakker-Vink). She was in  World War II… (READ MORE)

My mother was born in Amsterdam and was a ten year old child when the war started. She has told me a lot about the period 1940-1945. She also told me about the incident on May 7, she was there with… (READ MORE)

Mrs.Toos Gerver-Dessing (*1931) was witness at the Dam and told us about the incident. Our family lived at the Leidsegracht and togheter with two of my brothers we went also to the Dam.They sat on an old bicycle with wooden tires,one… (READ MORE)