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War Memorial - Waldfriedhof (Forest Cemetery)
Frankfurt/Main, Hesse, Germany




1940 - 1945
Niederländischer Friedhof/Dutch Cemetery


Panel Dutch Panel German

Entrance Gate

The Kingdom of the Netherlands was involved in the Second World War on 10 May 1940. German troops attacked the Netherlands on this day. After the bombardment of Rotterdam by the German Air Force on 14 May 1940 and the threat to bombard further cities did the Netherlands sign up the capitulation documents. With this date started the occupation which lasts until May 1945.
During the time of 1940 and 1945 hundreds of thousands of Dutch boys and men were used as forced labour convicts. They took over jobs of German workers who must fight at the front lines in Europe. Almost 30,000 forced labour convicts came to death during this time.
On initiative of the Dutch War Grave Commission were built up 7 fields of honour between 1952 and 1956 which are maintained by the commission and the local governments. These fields of honour are located in Bremen, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt/Main, Hanover, Lübeck, and Osnabrück. Dutch victims who died in the concentration camps because of hard work or other reasons are buried in these fields of honour.
The opening of the field of honour in Frankfurt/Main took place on 10 July 1956. It is a central cemetery and memorial for Dutch war victims who died in South-Germany and contains 756 graves. The memorial plate contains further 242 names which couldn't be buried in this cemetery. Here is also located the statue "Fallen Man". The inscription in the pedestal reads as follows:
"To the memory of the Dutch war victims of the concentration camps and their kommandos of Dachau, Flossenburg and Natzweiler."

An object of interest is a lime tree on the cemetery. This lime tree is a layer of the lime tree of Dillenburg under which Prince Willem van Oranje received the Dutch legation on 15 April 1568.

Panel Dutch War Grave Commission

Dutch war graves

Entrance Gate
Dutch War Graves

Memorial

Inscription

Memorial

Dutch War Graves

Dutch War Graves

Dutch War Graves
Dutch War Graves

Dutch War Graves

Dutch War Graves


Koninkrijk
der Nederlanden

Kingdom
of the Netherlands

W. P. Hendriks

21 - 7 - 1920
28 - 12 - 1944
Grave of W. P. Hendriks

Willem Pieter Hendriks

born on 21 July 1920 at Rotterdam
died on 28 December 1944
at Recheldorf, Bavaria, Germany

His parents were:

Leonardous Hendriks
and
Johanna Adrianna Jacoba Drost

The grave is located in the Waldfriedhof
block C, row 3, no. 4



Information about the mentioned concentration camps

Flossenbürg 1   Flossenbürg 2   Dachau   Natzweiler 1   Natzweiler 2



Many thanks to Mrs. Heidi Kulesza from Frankfurt/Main. She was
so kind to visit the cemetery to take pictures of it. Thank you, Heidi.





Angel

This page is dedicated to the 10 million victims of World War I and 60 million victims of World War II.
We should always remember the immense grief and loss each war brought to the world.

Angel



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