Media item

Commemoration of 1948: ceremony on Fort de Bilt

Week number 48-19

Newsreels in which Dutch subjects of a certain week are presented.

Type:
video
Length:
01:05
Publication date:
4 May 1948
User:
Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
Creator:
Polygoon-Profilti (producer) / Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (curator)
Source:
WEEKNUMMER481-HRE0000CAC1

Remembrance Day at Fort de Bilt, a 19th century militairy fort near Utrecht. During the Second World War it was occupied by the Germans and resistance fighters were executed there. SHOTS: ext. Fort de Bilt; int.: grave crosses; at the grave monument in the courtyard a memorial ceremony is held by civilians and soldiers; the trumpet is blown; soldiers stand to attention; former members of the resistance lay a wreath; mothers and widows lay flowers.