Memorial 'Mirror to the Future'
This memorial commemorates the Second World War and the regained freedom.
It is located near the hunting lodge 'The Jolly Duck' where on Sunday 29 April 1945 there was a battle between the Resistance and the Wehrmacht. The resistance fighter Jacob Leendert van Rij and American pilot John E. McCormick were killed. They are buried in a collective grave in Zoetermeer.
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Source
- Text: Fedor de Vries & Kaj Metz
- Photos: Corin Gelderblom
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Point of interest
- The Hunting Lodge "The Jolly Duck" aan de Rotte - Zevenhuizen
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- Bullet Impacts WWII Air Raid Gashuisje - Benthuizen
Monument
- War Memorial Zevenhuizen - Zevenhuizen
- War Memorial Bleiswijk - Bleiswijk
- Memorial killed soldiers - Moerkapelle
Cemetery
- Dutch War Graves General Cemetery Berkel en Rodenrijs - Berkel en Rodenrijs
- Grave Resistance hero Arie den Toom - Nieuwerkerk aan den IJssel
- Collective Grave Resistance Members & American Pilot Old Churchyard - Zoetermeer
Remembrance Stone
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- Stumbling Stones Molenlaan 71 - Rotterdam
- Stumbling Stone Maarten Dijkshoonlaan 17 - Rotterdam
Fortification
- Anti-aircraft 'Vordere Wasserstellung' - Boskoop
- Atlantikwall - Regelbau KSB (Kabelschaltbrunnen) - Rotterdam
- Atlantikwall - Vf Kommandostand Kampfkmdt - Rotterdam
Crash site
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