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Information Panel Resistance Fighter Willem Martinus Christiaan Boelhouwer

INFORMATION PANEL RESISTANCE FIGHTER
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Willem Martinus Christiaan Boelhouwer

Willem Martinus Christiaan Boelhouwer was a resistance fighter from Gouda. He and others set up the Gouda Central Intelligence Service (CID) post. They passed the information on to the Gouda resistance. The Germans tracked down the CID post and Boelhouwer was subsequently shot dead on Hofplein in Rotterdam.

The information panels in the Resistance Fighters District in Gouda are memories of important Resistance Fighters who helped many Dutch people during World War II.
To these Resistance Fighters, 16 streets are named to in Gouda.
On 10 april 2014, they finally got a face. Memory boards with photographs and information about these Resistance Fighters were revealed.
These are the streets:

Walraven van Halllaan
Van Roijenstraat
Rutgersstraat
Johannes Poststraat
Helena Rietbergstraat
Dobbestraat
Dercksenstraat
Brandsmastraat
Boelhouwerstraat
Bleysstraat
Willem Idenburgpad
Nieuwenhuisenpad
De Rijkestraat
Teldersstraat
Wiarda Beckmanhof
De Kortestraat.

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Source

  • Text: TracesOfWar
  • Photos: Arie van Wijngaarden