Ameland Tell! - Stories about the war - VVV Ameland

Ameland Tell! - Stories about the war

Saturday 17 May 2025
Saturday 24 May 2025
Saturday 31 May 2025
Saturday 7 June 2025

Ameland is an island full of stories. As part of 80 years of Liberation, you can hear personal and compelling war stories through the Ameland Vertel! personal and compelling war stories. Suitable for children én adults.

Let yourself be taken back to the years of occupation, evacuation, resistance and liberation – told by islanders themselves.

The narration programme:
Saturday 17 May
Maritime Centre Abraham Fock, Hollum – 14:00*

  • How an Amelander boy experienced the war’ – narrated by Aukje van Dijk
  • ‘Amsterdam Lenie on Ameland’ – the story of an Amsterdam girl who was taken in on the island, told by Jeanet de Jong

Saturday 24 May
Bunkerday at the Bunkermuseum – from 11:00 (continuous)**

  • ‘A tank on Ameland’ – narrated by Jester Nynke Schoustra
  • ‘A guilty place' – narrated by Bastiaan Kobes
  • ‘The Terrorist’ and ‘Cardinal de Jong’ – narrated by Mathilda and Henk Kingma

Saturday 31 May
Maritime Centre Abraham Fock, Hollum – 14:00*

  • ‘The Irish Proclamation’ – about the Easter Rising of the Irish, narrated by Peter van Noort
  • ‘A tank on Ameland’ – narrated by Jester Nynke Schoustra

Saturday 7 June
Maritime Centre Abraham Fock, Hollum – 14:00*

  • ‘The Irish Proclamation’ – Peter van Noort
  • ‘A guilty place' – narrated by Bastiaan Kobes

Please note that the stories are told in Dutch only.

*Free admission with Maritime Centre ticket
**Access via Bunkerdag participation ticket

 

Times are subject to change.

Saturday 17 May 2025
Saturday 24 May 2025
Saturday 31 May 2025
Saturday 7 June 2025

Ameland Tell!

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