Hedda van Gennep
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)
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)
The Foundation received from Mrs.Mathilda van Bentum-Hofker a detailed report of her memories as a 9 year old young girl over the period 1939-1946. She lived in the Zeeheldenbuurt with her parents, three older brothers, a sister and a younger… (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)
I am born in 1931 and on May 7 1945, I was 13 years old and lived then in the Bloys van Treslongstraat in Amsterdam-West. On May 7 1945 I went to the Dam to see the arrivel of the Canadians…. (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)
Aleida Josefine Slieker was injured during the shooting. You can see her on this photo of Margreet van Konijnenburg. The lady in a dark coat, lower right, lying on the ground. Aleida emigrated to the United States of America in… (READ MORE)
Het Parool, May 15 2013. Memories of May 7 1945 The shooting from the Grote Club of May 7 1945. We, two nurses in uniform, ran from the Binnengasthuis to the Rokin, to help people who had bullet wounds and… (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)
By the daughter of Frans J.van Dam we came in the possession of some photos that he made round May 7 1945 in Amsterdam. Most likely taken before May 7, secretly, Germans on patrol at the street. Arrest of 2 Germans… (READ MORE)
Amsterdam July 29 1884 – Amsterdam December 15 1966 Leijns found himself during the shooting at his office on the fifth floor of the Office Industria at the corner of the Rokin and the Dam. He had placed his camera on a… (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)
A wink of the eyes. On May 7 it’s my goal to cheer the allied forces at the Dam. I’m standing near the Grote Club nearby the man-sized barbed wire, were on one side a German soldier walks with a gun… (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)
I’m also a survivor of The Shooting. A long time I wonder, from historical view, what has happened to me. It wasn’t obvious a loose case of senseless violence. In Berlin and Moscow is commemorated that the Wehrmacht, in the… (READ MORE)
It is May 7 1945 I am sitting like a scared little bird on the stairs in the Paleisstraat against the side of the Royal Palace. Across the Dam are people running in panic. Through the air the bullets fly… (READ MORE)
Hereby my story, possibly I complete it later on, and if you have any questions I will answer them as good as I can. I have never done any research or if I can find further information, except the NIOD… (READ MORE)
My name is Clasina and I was 9 years old when my mother and I stood at the Dam. The Salvation Army was in front of the Palace, also the underground people. When I looked up to the other building… (READ MORE)
At the end of the war, Henk (*1940) was living in the Driehoekstraat, located in the “Jordaan” one of the typical Amsterdam living quarters, near to the Willemsstraat and at a 40 minutes walking distance from the Dam. On that… (READ MORE)
I had taken my three little brothers with me to the dam, which was only a few minutes away from our home on the corner of the Oude Hoogstraat en Kloveniersburgwal. At the time there was a small park in… (READ MORE)
Tonny van Renterghem (Amsterdam, June 28, 1919- Sequim, WA, July 19, 2009) was a Dutch writer and researcher and technical advisor in the film industry, who during World War II was active in the Dutch Resistance and co-founded The Underground Camera,… (READ MORE)
Sent in by J.G. Salm to the Oud-Amsterdammer: februari 2014 I had just turned 3 and my mother wanted to go see the Canadians. My father didn’t feel like going. She went into town with an elderly neighbor who also… (READ MORE)
Canadian soldier Wilf Gildersleeve had been a radio signaler, starting in Sicily in 1943. During the liberation of Holland in 1945, he was a platoon commander in the Seaforth Highlanders. In 1945, Margriet Blaisse was a young woman living in… (READ MORE)
The week before the liberation it was suddenly very quiet in our town Laren-Blaricum. The days before we heard constant gunshots, but it suddenly stopped from one day to the next. We understood that something was going on but what… (READ MORE)
From the beginning she was present, has experiences everything, all is engraved in her memories. “The Dam was filling up with people, party-time, liberation. The Germans had to go. Everybody was on the streets, calling and shouting. We called: ‘Away… (READ MORE)
Report Present, May 7 1945, I, commander Group C, Smit. P, had during our service on the Dam experienced the following facts and performed these actions. Several minutes before 03:00pm suddenly some salvos were fired by the Germans, they were… (READ MORE)
Mrs E.J.B.M. Sneeboer-Bense *1904 †1987 Mrs B. Sneeboer-Bense had heard that her husband, who was employed in Germany, was on his way home, she looked out for him in town. At the Dam she was present during the shooting. Unknown is… (READ MORE)