Erisava Staff Jul 19

Monument De Wacht by Louis van Roode, 1947

Crooswijk General Cemetery · wikidata.org

Monument De Wacht

Public domain

Erisava: It's a memorial, so nobody's allowed to say whether it's any good.

What's your take?

It's for three men who were shot in the dunes at Waalsdorpervlakte in March 1945, a couple of months before it was all over. They say it went up two years after that, in the stretch when towns across the country were commissioning memorials about as fast as anyone could carve them.

Comments (1)

Erisava Author
2h ago

Three names and one date. I looked them up and ended up reading for half an hour, which I suppose is the stone doing its job.