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Hiking trail Driel
The initiative from 2018, to create a route in and around Driel about the Polish contribution to Operation Market Garden (https://www.driel-polen.nl/nl/historie) has been realized. The route of approximately 6 kilometers takes you past important, and still recognizable, places and tells … 
Liberal parliamentarian with a heart for Polish paratroopers passed away
On Friday, 30 April, former Liberal parliamentarian Hans van Baalen died of cancer. In 2004, Hans van Baalen, together with Frans Timmermans, submitted questions to the Cabinet about the treatment of Polish paratroopers in the years following the Second World …
UN diplomat Brian Urquhart passed away
High-level UN diplomat and advocate for rehabilitation of the Poles praised the unique relationship of the Dutch with Polish and British soldiers Former high-level UN diplomat Brian Urquhart (1919-2021), who died January 2nd, saw many conflict areas. In a speech …
Newsletter 2020
Dear veterans, widows and relatives of veterans and friends of our Foundation. What a year 2020 has been! Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, this year turned out to be completely different for all of us – so different from what …
Live webinar lecture Generaal Stanisław Sosabowski
Dear Friends of General Sosabowski On December first I makes Hal Sosabowski, great-grandson of General Sosabowski, a live webinar lecture on Zoom concerning the General. The 1st Polish Independent Parachute Brigade, Operation Market Garden and the life of the General …
Support the preservation of our archive!
Support the preservation of our archive! Since those eventful days in 1944, there is a warm relationship between the Polish paratroopers and the population in the region, with Driel at its centre. Our foundation ‘Stichting Driel-Polen’ has played – and …
2020 – Commemoration Polish square September 2020
Vanwege het coronavirus zullen deze activiteiten alleen in besloten kring plaats vinden!. Friday 18 September 2020 Unveiling stained-glass window Speeches Opening Chairman Foundation Driel-Polen A.J.M. Baltussen General G. Grodzki, Commander 6th Airborne Brigade Poland Representative football club RKSV …
(Nederlands) Videofilm Informatiecentrum: De Polen van Driel
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Annual commemoration and Covid-19
Covid-19 has changed the world and every day we are made aware of the effects it has on our life, our expectations and our future. Many questions have to be answered, but one thing is certain: we all see it …
2019 – Commemoration Polish square September 2019
Op een zonovergoten Polenplein worden de 3 Poolse veteranen, Kubinski, Staszkiewicz en Cisek door enkele duizenden belangstellenden onder luid applaus ontvangen. De Britse kroonprins ZKH Prins Charles en minister van Defensie Ank Bijleveld waren de speciale gasten die deze …