Raids in Putten from eighty years ago commemorated: 'Still tears'

About a thousand people commemorated the raid in early October 1944 in the Oude Kerk in Putten. After the memorial service, several thousand people took part in a silent march through the Gelderland village. During the Second World War, more than 650 citizens were taken away to concentration camps by the German occupiers. "Almost every Putten resident has family who were taken away at that time," says Gert van Dompseler of Stichting Oktober 44. …

Relatives of people who died during the Putten raid in October 1944 say they look back on a special commemoration of the raid in Putten. This year, King Willem-Alexander was also present. This year, it is eighty years ago that 659 men from the Veluwe town were taken away by the Nazis to Germany.