The resistance monument in Bakkeveen (municipality of Opsterland) was erected in memory of ten resistance fighters from Groningen who were shot by the occupiers on 10 April 1945 at the …

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The resistance monument in Bakkeveen was erected in memory of ten Groningen resistance fighters who were executed by the occupying forces on 10 April 1945 near the Nije Drintsewei.
(Source: tracesofwar.nl/sights/25011/Monument-Executies-10-April-1945.htm)

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The artist Hendrik Werkman is one of the ten men for whom this monument was erected. They were executed three days before the liberation of the Northern Netherlands. The reasons for his arrest and execution were never fully understood. Werkman is buried in the cemetery of Bakkeveen.

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