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    Overveen is a village in North Holland in the Netherlands, in the municipality of Bloemendaal. Overveen lies on the eastern fringe of the North Sea dunes...
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    Bloemendaal Aerdenhout Bloemendaal aan Zee Overveen Vogelenzang Municipality map, February 2024 Bloemendaal Overveen The municipal council of Bloemendaal consists...
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    Institute in The Hague. He took the same job at the Kennemer Lyceum in Overveen, where he worked until 1960. From the 1920s on he became well known for...
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    she was shot dead three weeks before the end of the war in the dunes of Overveen, near Bloemendaal. Two men known as Mattheus Schmitz and Maarten Kuiper...
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    death of a high-ranking police officer. After the war, he was buried in Overveen in the Erebegraafplaats Bloemendaal (Cemetery of Honour). Van Hall was...
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    Overveen is a railway station in Overveen, Netherlands. The station opened 3 June 1881. It lies on the Haarlem–Zandvoort railway. The station has two...
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    South Holland. He was arrested in 1944 and executed on 10 June 1944 in Overveen. After the war, Guermonprez was buried in the Dutch Honorary Cemetery Bloemendaal...
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    twelve other resistance members were driven out to the sand dunes outside Overveen, where they were executed, then buried together in a mass grave. After...
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    (31 August 1911 in Haarlem, Netherlands – 22 April 1998 in Bloemendaal/Overveen, Netherlands) was a Dutch politician and doctor of law. For a number of...
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  • of the Dutch Resistance. The execution took place July 16, 1944, near Overveen. After the war in Europe ended, Dettmann was arrested in the Netherlands...
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