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Escaped Wearing Traditional Bonnet

1944

 Nationaal Comité 4 en 5 mei

Nationaal Comité 4 en 5 mei
Amsterdam, Netherlands

One out of every five inhabitants of the town of Aalten located in the Achterhoek, the so-called back corner in the east of the Netherlands bordering Germany, was in hiding there during the Second World War. The occupier was on constant look out for people on the run, Jews or young men trying to avoid work in the labour camps. Even the churches in town were not safe.

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