By Paul Grondahl/Times Union – July 18, 2016 Dutch festival unites cutting-edge technology with 100-year tradition >> Used with permission and previously published in the Times Union. Inside the white marble Gothic grandeur of the 13th-century St. Stevens Church in the heart of the oldest city in the Netherlands, hundreds of people from many countries celebrated […]
By Paul Grondahl/Times Union – April 7, 2016 City sent supplies to war-ravaged Netherlands city >> Used with permission and previously published in the Times Union. “This is Nijmegen,” a World War II-era Dutch film missing for six decades, a cinematic thank-you to Albany’s citizens for sending a shipload of relief supplies to the war-ravaged city in […]
Dutch researcher Anja Adriaans came to the Hall of Records this October 2013, to research local history visà-vis the World War II relationship between Albany and Nijmegen, Netherlands. Additionally, she wanted information about the soldiers of the 82nd Airborne Division and hoped to generate interest in starting an exchange program with University of Albany and […]
After a visit from Albany delegates to Nijmegen, the Netherlands, in March 47 it is now late summer 1947 and the Holland America Line MS Westerdam has shipped the relief goods from Albany harbor to Rotterdam. In Rotterdam the cargo is loaded on to inland vessels, one of them is the Nijmegen III. This short […]
Foundation wants to tighten historical bonds with US city of Albany, NY. It all started after the war. Reporter Jacqueline van Ginneken, De Gelderlander He got brown shoes. High, brown, leather shoes. “Very tough looking,” says John – ‘Jan is fine too’ – Leesberg. He is 86 years old, but the citizen from Nijmegen remembers […]
Commissioned by CBK Nijmegen, Dutch filmmaker Martijn Schinkel made a short, poetic, almost silent, little documentary about a bridge as a monument. On September 20, 1944, 48 American paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne Division lost their lives during the heroic crossing of the River Waal at Nijmegen. This battle was crucial in the liberation of Nijmegen. A memorial commemorates this […]