Collection

Museum de bewogen jaren has a wide variety and an extensive collection of WWII and Netherlands/Dutch East Indies.

In the leftside of the page you see a small grab of it.

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Uniform of Marselis Hartsinck. He was a Luitenant-Kolonel in the Flying Corps of the Netherlands. After the German occupation he managed to escape to Great-Britain. A part of the museum is about the German aggression and the Dutch military resistance in May 1940. This in uniform and document. Also the war in the Dutch East-Indies has its attention.



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The Internees in the Dutch East-Indies. This is a birthday present for a cook in the woman- and children- internees camp called Banjoe-Biroe. The museumcollection shows different materials from the internees camps and also documents and fotographs.














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Manifactured in the internees camps. With very less material internees managed to create beautiful things and presents.













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Sometimes Prisoners of war who were forced to do hard labor on the Burma-Siam railway were able to sent a postcard to their relatives in the internees camps in Indonesia. This is a card sent by Mr Griffioen from an officerscamp on the Deathrailway to his wife in Sumatra. In the museum different material from the forced hard labor are being shown.










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Jews were forced to weir these stars. In our region near the Belgian border a lot of Jews found help to escape to Belgium on their route to, for example, Switzerland. Different aspects of these “pilot escape lines”are shown in the museum.

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WELCH ROOM. The Welch Room remembers the liberation of our villages. On September 23rd 2007 the Welch Room was first opened by Emrys Davies of 4th Welch Regiment. We show different material left after the battle for Reusel. Also the names of the British- , German- and civil casualties during the battle for Reusel.