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Resistance Memorial Bakkeveen

Resistance Memorial Bakkeveen

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Resistance Memorial Bakkeveen

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Location: Opsterland, Friesland, Netherlands

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Monique

November 10, 2024

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 Nije Drintsewei.
The names of the ten victims are:
A.E. Gorter, ds. S.J. Hoekstra, J. Kazemier, H. Mulder, mr. M. Ritzema, A.P.B. Sanders, A. Smid (the stone incorrectly states Smit), E.L. Ubbens, H.N. Werkman and A. van der Woude.
On Monday 9 April 1945, ten prisoners were taken from the detention centre in Groningen and loaded into a truck covered with tarpaulin. Five members of the Sicherheitsdienst rode along. One of the prisoners, the commander of the Dutch Home Forces from Leek, Harmannus Pieter Schuringa, managed to jump out of the truck at three o'clock in the morning and escape. The car got stuck on a dirt road. Even with a number of horses, the car could not be moved. In the course of the morning, the car was towed away with the help of a large truck. On 10 April, Hendirk Nicolaas Werkman was added to this group. The two trucks drove to the place of execution. The ten prisoners were shot dead on the Nije Drintsewei between Bakkeveen and Allardsoog.
Due to the heavy fog, the residents could not see anything. On Wednesday 11 April, several employees of the Dutch Heathland Society discovered that a piece of arable land had been dug (on the spot where the monument now stands). There they found the ten remains. The horrible discovery was reported under secrecy to the management of the Volkshogeschool in Allardsoog, who warned the commander of the Binnenlandse Strijdkrachten in the municipality of Opsterland. There were fears of a repeat, but nothing more happened. The Canadians were making a rapid advance. On Sunday morning, April 15, Liberation Day, the eight-meter long grave was opened to identify the victims. The funeral followed on April 17 at the cemetery in the forest near Bakkeveen. Kazemier was taken to Aduard and later the others were reburied in their own village. Only the remains of Werkman remained in Bakkeveen.

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Theo

January 2, 2021

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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jan

July 2, 2022

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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