Right next to the Catholic cemetery of Wijk bij Duurstede is the Public Cemetery, for the rest of the population. I’m not sure how old it is, the oldest graves seem to be from the 1920s. At the back is a separate section with old Jewish graves, some of them from...
Last week we visited my grandfather’s grave, on the cemetery of Witteveen. I was a bit taken aback when I saw this gravestone on the same cemetery: With only the first name Henk on it, it seemed like a grave for me. On closer inspection the stone also had the...
A small photo impression of the Catholic cemetery of the Dutch town Wijk bij Duurstede, prov. Utrecht. More photos of this cemetery will follow soon.
The grave of my grandfather, Theodorus Joannes Gerardus Adrianus Pardoen (1914-1978), in the cemetery of the village Witteveen, province Drenthe. The epitaph Zie, ik maak alle dingen nieuw (Behold, I make all things new) is from the book of Revelations: And God shall...
A tombstone that is a bit different: A statue of an angel, with two small circles on the pedestal containing the inscription: Henriette P.C.M. de Meulder [born] 2 February 1874 in Lisse [died] 11 August 1951 in Breukelen, awaits here the happy day of her resurrection....
