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Memories of War and Overseas Service
In this section, the Liberation Museum Zeeland brings the war to life through personal stories. Here you will find powerful testimonies from people who experienced the Second World War in Zeeland firsthand. Their memories give history a human face and show how deeply the war affected both young and old.
Alongside these eyewitness stories, you will also find the remarkable story of the Zeeland Battalion: a group of war volunteers from Zeeland who were deployed to the Dutch East Indies after the liberation of the Netherlands. Their service represents a lesser-known, yet important chapter in our post-war history.
Together, these stories reveal how the war was experienced, what people endured, and how their memories still resonate to this day.
In this series, people from Zeeland share their memories of the Second World War. Stories filled with fear, loss, but also courage and hope – powerful testimonies for future generations.
After the liberation, hundreds of people from Zeeland joined the Zeeland Battalion. As war volunteers, they were deployed to the Dutch East Indies – a little-known but important post-war story.
