They were called "Engelandvaarders". In total almost 1,700 young man and women who escaped occupied Holland between 1940 and 1943, to embarked on a dangerous trip, some crossing the Channel with a canoe or a sailboat or like my father by foot, train, bus through France, Switzerland and crossing the Pyrenees in mid winter.(Updated Version)It took him 390 days. After landing in Normandie in 1944, he liberated the Netherlands with the Princess Irene Brigade in May 1945.I am proud of my father
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