Project connects Americans to the Dutch people who honor their relatives at World War II cemetery

A new initiative aims to increase the number of connections between the family members of those buried and remembered at a ...

Project links Americans to Dutch who adopt WWII soldiers’ graves

Dutch people are "adopting" graves of fallen World War II soldiers who were buried in the Netherlands and a new initiative ...
KYMA

Dutch families adopt WWII soldiers’ graves and memorials

All 10,000 graves and memorials at the Netherlands American Cemetery have been adopted by Dutch families, but only about 25% ...
The Holland Sentinel

How a Holland man found peace, friendship after his father's WWII involvement

Holland resident Gerrit Haagsma and visitor Hessel Bouma sat downtown enjoying their coffee. The students, locals and tourists who hustled by could never guess the history the men carried between them ...

Texas woman finds comfort as Dutch family honors her brother, a WWII airman

A touching international bond is helping preserve the memory of a fallen World War II airman from Texas. June West, 93, lost ...
The Eagle

Ray Ivey pix: Director Verhoven’s movies often dealt with WWII in Holland

“Soldier of Orange” (1977): This ambitious early film from Dutch director Paul Verhoven got him the attention of Steven Spielberg. It tells the epic story of several young college friends who are ...

Project connects Americans to Dutch people who honor their relatives at World War II cemetery

In the decades since June West Brandt's older brother was killed in World War II, her kind and artistic sibling who loved to ...