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Wassenaar honours man who saved the graves of resistance fighters from oblivion
Piet Kuijt and another man digging up a mass grave in the dunes. Photo: Beeldbank WO2 – NIOD
Wassenaar local council has named the cycle path that leads past the memorial on the World War II execution site Waalsdorpervlakte after Piet Kuijt, who prevented the graves of resistance fighters from disappearing forever.
Kuijt’s work only came to light recently through the efforts of Edward Verheij, who became intrigued by the story which was doing the rounds at dune water company Dunea where he is manager.
Katwijker Kuijt, who worked as a marram grass planter at the previous incarnation of the company had marked the graves of the resistance fighters, the story went, foiling the attempts by the Nazis to erase every trace.