Leo Haak was just six years old when his home country of the Netherlands was liberated from Nazi German control at the end of the Second World War. The 80-year-old Owen Sound resident’s daughter, Monica Brown, said those Canadian-led efforts 74 years ago to free the country following a brutal five-year occupation left a lasting...Read More
Leo Haak was just six years old when his home country of the Netherlands was liberated from Nazi German control at the end of the Second World War. The 80-year-old Owen Sound resident’s daughter, Monica Brown, said those Canadian-led efforts 74 years ago to free the country following a brutal five-year occupation left a lasting...Read More
My opa and oma were part of the underground railroad in Holland helping Jews escape to freedom. My mom was born under a sheet being held up to stop the ceiling plaster falling on her while the Allies fought the Nazis during an air raid. My opa was captured and put on a train to...Read More
