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Linthorst Homanpolder Monument
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Rogier Van Bunnik 🇳🇱
March 31, 2024
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There are now two monuments on the dike in Westernieland. One for the reclamation of the Linthorst Homanpolder. “Dei nait wil diek'n mout wiek'n,” it says. The second monument is …
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jan
September 6, 2025
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"In memory of those who in 1939 and 1940 devoted their best efforts to the reclamation of this polder. And who lost their lives in a fatal accident." Fourteen names are also included. Thirteen of them died on October 16, 1940, when their bus collided with a train in thick fog near Ranum. They were unemployed people from Groningen, who had been deployed to the reclamation project as part of the work relief program.
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