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The United States classified the Nordic Resistance Movement as a terrorist organization | News in brief
In Finland, the organization’s activities have been defined as illegal in 2020. The United States has classified the Nordic Resistance Movement (NRM) as a terrorist organization and imposed sanctions on…
After 80 years, rehabilitation for resistance heroine Esmée van Eeghen from Baarn
Although no evidence has ever been found that she betrayed her fellow resistance fighters, she was not included on the honors list of Dutch resistance fighters. That is why she…
The Russians crossed the border into Ukraine without encountering resistance
Updated 00.58 | Published 00.10 share-arrowShare unsaveSave expand-left full screen 11-year-old Khrystyna hugs her mother Oksana, 42. Both have been evacuated from the city of Vovtyansk, which lies northeast of…
Sami language technology faces resistance from tech giants
Linguists and language workers gathered this week at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in New York. The theme was “How will indigenous languages survive in the digital…
Van Rossem talks to the daughter of resistance fighter Henk Das: ‘The war haunted him all his life’
The fact that Das was not caught himself always remained a mystery to him. In the autumn of 1944, when everyone thinks that the war will soon be over, the…
Granddaughter of resistance fighter Jacob Veerman commemorates her grandfather in Neuengamme: ‘A journey in his footsteps’
Allies wrong Neuengamme was evacuated in April 1945 because the Allies were advancing rapidly. Ten thousand prisoners were brought to Lubeck and imprisoned on three large ships, like floating concentration…
Van Rossem talks to the daughter of resistance fighter Henk Das, who laid the wreath on Domplein tonight
The fact that Das was not caught himself always remained a mystery to him. In the autumn of 1944, when everyone thinks that the war will soon be over, the…
Resistance heroine honored with Trui van Lier Speelkwartier in Utrecht’s Wilhelmina Park
Trui van Lier founded a children’s daycare center in 1940, called Kindjeshaven. Trui, herself a niece of the famous resistance fighter Truus van Lier, and her friend Jet Berdenis van…
Emmanuel Macron in the Vercors to commemorate the resistance fighters of the Second World War
Ten days after the Glières plateau, the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, continues this Tuesday, April 16, the commemorations of the 80th anniversary of the landing in Drôme, in…
Mélanie Berger-Volle, 102 years old, former resistance fighter, bearer of the Olympic flame
Chosen by the Loire department, in central France, to carry the flame for the Olympic Games on June 22, this shadowy woman will be, for the duration of a stage,…