Hi all,
I am doing research to what happened to my grandfather.
My dad used to do this, but he past away, still with the questions unanswered!
What we know:
My grandfather (Jan van de Putte) was chief of police in Amsterdam (NL), during the war he was (together with other people from the Amsterdam Police) deported to a KZ (westerbork/vught) in the Netherlands. From there his fellow Police colleagues were released.
He was not released. He spend time in German concentration camps. One we know of is "Bergen-Belsen", the other one is unknown.
Somewhere in 1945 my father remembered that he visited my grandfather in the Netherlands in Aalsmeer in a school building. He went there from Amsterdam where he lived and walked there to bring my grandfather food.
My grandfather though was not sitting there alone. There was a group of about 25 british, American and Canadien pilots there.
At a certain time this group was divided and my grandfather together with 12 pilots were brought to a dutch island, named "Terschelling" where they were eventually freed.
From the last days on Terschelling there are pictures, where the pilots and my grandfather can be seen.
The transport of the pilots from Aalsmeer to Terschelling was done at night and over the sea in a very small boat, without markings.
My grandfather refused to talk about what had happened during that time.
Also when investigating why these pilots were transported there and why to Terschelling, we run in to a wall of silence. Nobody wants to talk about it.
The baracks on Terschelling were German, but most of the local population didn't even know about it.
I would like to find out who were in the group.
Why this group?
The Germans would not keep people alive if they didn't have a reason to do so.
What was so secret about the German Baracks on Terschelling.
And if someone knows where these people were during the WWII
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