The 1996 Dakota-crash in the Wadden Sea
The island of Texel, the biggest of the Dutch Wadden Islands, has an important place in my personal history; my grandfather and my mother (his daughter) were both born on …
The Homomonument, a site of a human disaster
6/11/2014 I discovered the Homomonument accidentally, on one of my first days in Amsterdam after my arrival in August to start my Erasmus exchange. I was discovering the city with …
The scars that the 2001 tragedy left on the village of Volendam
The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction defines disaster as: “a serious disruption of the functioning of a community or a society involving widespread human, material, economic or environmental …
Remembering Disaster. On the shooting on Dam Square May 7th 1945
06/04/2016 It’s May 7th, 1945. Two days earlier Nazi-Germany surrendered, and the Dutch occupation ended officially. However, the Allied forces haven’t ingressed most of the villages and cities in the …
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Legionella Disaster
07/11/2014 In 1999 a Legionella disaster occurred in the Netherlands. Lot’s of people suffered from the Legionnaires’ disease. They got pneumonia-like symptoms and the disease was spread over the country. …
Bijlmer Air Crash Disaster
12/04/2016 The Netherlands with its dense population is, according to Menno van Duin (1995), disaster-prone. It is remarkable, then, that major accidents and disasters are rare events. However, the Netherlands …