Monument Evacuation 'De Boldershof' Druten

This memorial commemorates the evacuation in 10 May 1940 of the Roman Catholic Boarding School for mentally disabled girls in Druten. The group, accompanied by nuns, fled from the Boldershof institution in Druten to the Royal Military Academy in Breda. This because of the threat of military movement around the boarding school.

There was no room at the KMA, so the girls and their escorts spend the night in the Mastbos. The next day, they find shelter in Bouvigne castle, home to the Pius X Foundation. There, the girls are trained as servants or family carers and so they are known as ‘the girls of Bouvigne’.

Dutch text on the memorial (translated to English):

IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF THE
WONDERFUL PROTECTION OF THE
GUARDIAN ANGEL ENCOUNTERED ON
OUR FLEE OF WAR DANGER,
FROM DRUTEN TO BREDA
IN MAY 1940
GUARDIAN ANGEL KEEP US
PROTECTED

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Source

• Text: TracesOfWar
• Photos: Arjan Vrieze
• - De Gelderlander