Media item

Laying of a wreath at the memorial stone on the Waal bridge

Week number 45-40

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

Type:
video
Length:
00:46
Publication date:
1 September 1945
User:
Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
Creator:
Polygoon-Profilti (producer) / Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (curator)
Source:
WEEKNUMMER454-HRE00010161

Youth from Haarlem lay a wreath at the memorial sign of Jan van Hoof on teh Waal bridge in Nijmegen. The resistance fighter Jan van Hoof from Haarlem prevented the blowing up of this bridge by the retreating Germans on September 18, 1944, but was killed himself the next day.