ladies of ww2, a few pics..

nice one of dutch children... and resistance ladies too....

 

Hannie Schaft , Dutch resistance most known female of ww2 ..
Also known as "the girl with the red hair "..executed in the last days of the war .

 

here are some interesting resistance memorials eric, plaques and the like..ray.
Flickr: The French resistance fighters of WW2 Pool

 

Thanks for the salute Cav,
The stones on the grave plaque are symbols she's not been forgotten and were left by visitors or former comrades .. I believe in Jewish tradition its a common practice to do after a visit to a grave of a loved one .
Dont know if Hannie was Jewish , didnt think so ,but she was a member of a fierce communist resistance group. Her death is very controversial even today.
She's buried in the Dunes in a small honour graveyard , very close to the coast in a place called Bloemendaal .(erebegraafplaats Bloemendaal ) The location was used as fusillade place in ww2 and many resistance people from the Amsterdam and Haarlem area were actually shot and found in or very nearby there. I believe almost all people resting there are red resistance fighters , and the crew of a allied bomber that crashed in the dunes . Guess this cemetary is the closest to a specific resistance graveyard/rememberance place we have .

Theres a similar place in the den Haag area , called the waalsdorper vlakte ..also in the dunes and also a former fusillade location . graves are not concentrated in one area but spread over the land ..The TV remembereance service on the evening of the 4th of may is recorded from here always . ( 3rd and 4th pic )

 

The Chasseneuil-sur-Bonnieure National Cemetery and Memorial (16)

 

Thanks Ray all very interesting.

 

my pleasure eric...

 

When I googled adding stones to graves, it came up with many links to the Jewish tradition of leaving stones on the grave when you visit. There are various versions as to the roots of the tradition. A basic one is that it indicates to the next person who comes that someone/or others were there to give honour to the deceased before them.

Interstingly, they are not the only ones with a stone-leaving tradition: Cairn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia although these are not usually at grave sites, but in some cases the concept is similar as it indicates that someone went that way previously.

 

The Jewish tradition of leaving stones is well known here too Macrusk ..I did some further research about Miss Schaft ..she herself was not jewish but a red resistance fighter who did help many jewish people . She lived ogether with two jewish student girls in an appartment in Haarlem ..
If youre interested in her story theres plenty to be found about her on google .
Besides she was a hero , her story is telling some other story about the ending of the war that people nowadays just like to forget about .. treason !
The war wasnt even over and some people in our gouvernment had the idea to have red resistance fighters taken care of by germans for they feared a red coup after the war .
Its a nasty scandal ..can tell you that .. even today !!
A movie was made about her life , called 'the girl with the red hair ' migh be you've seen it .