Market 12 hiding museum

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Aalten underground museum
Aalten museum.jpg
Entrance area of ​​the museum
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place Aalten , Netherlands
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Resistance story
opening 2004
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The underground museum Markt 12 , Nationaal Onderduikmuseum is located in Aalten (Gelderland, Netherlands ). NetherlandsNetherlands 

In near the German border were during the era of National Socialism particularly large submerged people like Jews , political and racial persecution, resistance fighters and before the forced labor fled before the German occupiers and the police hiding. In Aalten there were around 2,500 people hiding for a population of 13,000. The building market 12, House of Kempink family was of German local headquarters, a refuge in bomb attacks for people from the neighborhood and hiding place for those before the seat Nazis had had to go into hiding.

The Kingdom of the Netherlands , the State of North Rhine-Westphalia , the Province of Gelderland and numerous cities and communities on both sides of the border were involved in the museum project. The aim was to design an exhibition through which knowledge about xenophobia , racism and fascism can be increased and sensitized for current manifestations of racism and discrimination .

With the help of the Euregio Rhein-Waal , the Untertauchermuseum started a project Unterwegs - Onderweg , a German-Dutch cooperation project between schools and museums in 2019 . The Otto Pankok Foundation in Hünxe with its museum is in charge, including the Humberghaus historical site in Hamminkeln- Dingden and the Filder Benden grammar school in Moers. The leitmotif of this collaboration is freedom, tolerance, and humanity .

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Web links

Commons : Untertauchermuseum Markt 12  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Anne Avenarius: Markt 12 Museum and National Liberation Museum , Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, October 2009, accessed April 4, 2016

Coordinates: 51 ° 55 ′ 40.1 ″  N , 6 ° 34 ′ 53.3 ″  E