Dordrecht during world war two

A collection of historical items from World War II in Dordrecht.

New on this website.

To be able to see all changes applied to this website easily and quickly, I have added the page: "New on this website". You will find all new additions and structural changes on the website here. 


Addition October 26, 2024:

- To the page: Photos, a new page: Mobilization and the Dutch Army has been added. Here, mobilization photos and photos of the Dutch army in Dordrecht will be posted.


Addition July 20, 2024:
A few changes:
The page "Other items - "the Korps Pontonniers and Torpedisten" is now subdivided into various topics related to the Corps of Army Maritime Engineers.
The page "Other items - Military and Mobilization" now includes the page "The Tegelaar kepi". Here, all kepis from this manufacturer will be displayed.


Addition March 9, 2024:
page: Photos has been added to page: May 1940 - Amstelwijck. Here all the photo material of Amstelwijck in May 1940 will be placed.


Addition 2 december 2023:
- To the page: "Documents", the new page: "German military documents" has been added. 

Addition 25 november 2023:
To the page: "Documents", the new page: "Papers" has been added.  

Addition 18 juli 2022:
A few changes: 
- To the pages: "Others", the subpages: "Military and mobilisation" and "Binnenlandse Strijdkrachten Dordrecht"have been added. All things that do not fall in the category photo's or documents in relation tot this subject are being placed here and some already have been. 

Addition 17 juni 2022:
- To the page: Home, the new page: "Terms of use for the content on this website" has been added. Here you will find the terms of use for content on this website. 

Addition 11 juni 2022:
- To the page: "Photographs- may 1940", the page: "Photoalbum Ensign de Braal" has been added. Here you will find the personal photoalbum of Ensign de Braal from de Hoeksche Waard in may 1940. 


Addition 09 april 2022:
- To the page: "Others", the new page "Collaboration and the NSB" in Dordrecht has been added. Here you find al items concerning this topic. 


Addition 01 augustus 2021:
- To the page: "Documents", the new page "Military and Mobilization" had been added. All documents concerning this topic will be placed here.  


Addition 09 april 2021:
- Tot the page: "Photographs", the page "Kriegsmarine in Dordrecht" has been added. All Kriegsmarine related photographs will be added here. 


Addition 28 februari 2021:
- To the page: "Others", the page " Dress uniform-jacket K. de Munter" has been added. Here you will find the dress uniform jacket of Sergeant K. de Munter from Dordrecht.

Addition 16 januari 2021:
The page "Pontonniersuniform mobilization period Netherlands" has been changed to the page: "Korps Pontonniers en Torpedisten in Dordrecht". In the meantime I have added multiple items related to the "Korps Pontonniers en Torpedisten. All items related to this topic will be added here.  

Addition 31 december 2020: 

- A new page has been added to the page: "Othes": Officers headgear Jaap Elias B vest Dordrecht. The "Kepie" a type of headgear intented for Dutch soldiers and officers has been added with additional information about it. 

Addition 25 november 2020: 
- A new page has been added to: "Documents" Songbook conscripted soldier Boer. Here you will find the personal songbook that belonged to conscripted soldier Boer, he was part of the "Dekkingsdetachement Willemsdorp" or special detachement Willemsdorp. 

Addition 04 april 2020:
- To the page: "Others", the subpage : Donations has been added. Here, all donations from people to the collection will be added. 

Addition 17 maart 2020:
- To the page: Others, the subpage "Ruisch collection" has been added. It's a extensive collection of ration coupons, resistance papers and document and a "Ordedienst" sleeve band. 

Addition 03 februari 2020:
- To the page: "Others, the subpage "Pontonniersuniform Netherlands" has been added. The page show the officers uniform jacket of a 1st lieutenant of the "Korps Pontonniers en Torpedisten" with further information about it. 

Addition 07 november 2019:
- To the page "Media", the page "Dordrecht during the war in the media" has been added. Here all articles or images about the website publiced in the media will appear. Just now, the newspaper article from the "Stem van Dordt" august 28th had been added. 

Addition 20 juli 2019:
To the page: "Home", the page "Interesting websites" had been added. Here you will find interesting internet websites related to the topics on this website. 


Addition 25 mei 2019:
To the page: "Others", the page "Extensive collection van der Hum" has been added. Here you will find all interesting photographs, documents and others that belonged to conscripted Sergeant van der Hum of the "Dekkingsdetachement Willemsdorp" or special detachement Willemsdorp. 

Addition 22 april 2019:
- The page" Deathcards" under "Documents" has now been altered to two seperate pages: "German deathcards and Dutch Deathcards"


Addition 24 februari 2019:
- Since we have a first positive photograph identification, the page: Photographs - Identification has been altered. In the page below, you will now find all photographs that have been identificated. 

Addition 03 juli 2018: 
- Underneath the page: Photographs - may 1940, the page: River casemate II Willemsdorp has been added. Because, I now  have multiple photographs of this River casemate II in my collection and the casemate has an extensive history, I decided to make a seperate page for this topic. I hope to add some more photographs of casemates, bunkers and field fortifications in the near future.  

Addition 20 november 2017:
Beneath the topic: "Media" - "Personal stories" I've added the wartime story of Zoetje Corvers, she was my grandmother. She was a child during the war and at several ocasions, acompanied by her father, she had to walk large distances to a farmhouse. Her father then dissapeared for some time. Ather the war, documents were found and it turned out that Zoetjes father was a member of the "Binnenlandse Strijdkrachten" or domestic armed forces. Presumably he was involved in resitance activities when he took Zoetje to the farmhouse. 

Addition 10 november 2017:
To the pages: "Photographs" and "Documents", two new pages have been added. The pages: "New in my collection" The new additions to my collection will be added here. It will create an easy oversight of what's new on the website. 



©2017-2024 :Https://www.Dordrechtindeoorlog.nl: ( There is a copyright on the content of this website. This content is not to be shared, duplicated or published withouth the explicit permission of the author of this website. If you have any requests you can email to: Info@Dordrechtindeoorlog.nl or look on : www.dordrechtindeoorlog.nl/termsofuseforthecontentonthiswebsite.


E-mailen
Map
Info