Roelof Vlietstra: 'Engelandvaarder' (England paddler)

The Engelandvaarder Museum (https://www.museumengelandvaarders.nl/), which is located a few kilometres north of The Hague, commemorates those Dutch people who, between the Dutch capitulation on 9 May 1940 and the Normandy landings on 6 June 1944, left the Netherlands with the object of reaching England to help with the war effort. The museum commemorates both those whose attempts succeeded and those whose attempts failed. The earliest of these attempts were made by people who paddled across the North Sea in canoes, hence the name 'Engelandvaarders' (England paddlers). Roelf Vlietstra was one s... Mehr ...