Loenen, Apeldoorn
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Loenen is a village in the Dutch province of Gelderland. It is located in the municipality of Apeldoorn, about 10 km southeast of that city.
Loenen was a separate municipality until 1818, when it was merged with Apeldoorn.[1]
National Cemetery of Honours
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Near the village of Loenen is the National Cemetery of Honours (Nationaal Ereveld Loenen), In 1948, it was decided to create a national cemetery of honours for the resistance fighters, political prisoners, and soldiers who died during World War II and were buried outside of the Netherlands.[2] There are close to 4,000 people buried at the cemetery[2]
In the centre is a chapel dedicated to the Engelandvaarders, the men and women who attempted to escape from the Netherlands to England, and a funerary urn containing earth from the concentration camps Majdanek, Sobibor and Treblinka. In the back is the list of the 130,000 people whose remains have not been located.[3]
Notable people
- Willem Albert Scholten (1819–1895), industrialist and landowner[4]
References
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