Didam is a town in the Netherlands in the eastern of Netherlands in the region of “De Liemers”, province of Gelderland. It is located in the municipality of Montferland, about 18 km east of Arnhem which is the capital of the province. And about 11 km west from Doetinchem.
Grijpskerk is a village in the Dutch province of Groningen. It is located in the municipality of Zuidhorn, about 18 km west of the city of Groningen.
The Barneveldse Krant is a local daily newspaper in the Netherlands. It is printed, published, and distributed by Royal BDU in Barneveld. The newspaper is printed 6 times per week, with a focus on advertisements on Thursday and special weekend pages on Saturday. The Thursday edition is free of charge. It became a daily only in 1967, with 5 issues a week at that time.
Elst is a city in the municipality of Overbetuwe in the Dutch province of Gelderland. It is situated in the Betuwe, between the cities of Nijmegen and Arnhem. Elst has 21,447 inhabitants.
Lieuwe Dirk Boonstra was a South African paleontologist whose work focused on the mammal-like reptiles of the Middle and Late Permian, whose fossil remains are common in the South African Karroo. He was the author of a large number of papers on Therapsids and Pareiasaurs, and described and revised a number of species.
Hoornaar is a town in the Dutch province of South Holland, in the Alblasserwaard, north of the river Merwede and south of the river Lek. It is a part of the municipality of Giessenlanden, and lies about 5 km north of Gorinchem.
Coetzee is an Afrikaans surname. It is the tenth most common family name in the Republic of South Africa.
Asperen is a village in the Dutch province of Gelderland. It is a part of the municipality of Lingewaal, and lies about 10 km east of Gorinchem on the river Linge. It received city rights in 1313.
Brinkman, Brinkmann, Brinckman, and Brinckmann are variations of a Dutch and German surname. It is toponymic surname with the same meaning as the surname Van den Brink: "(man) from the village green". Notable people with these surnames include:
Dirk Boonstra (1893) was a police commander for the village of Grijpskerk in the Netherlands during World War II. It was for his actions here in refusing to carry out an order to round up the remaining Dutch Jews in the area with his fellow policemen that he is recognized in 1988 as Righteous Among the Nations by the Yad Vashem.
Ivens is a Germanic surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Dirk Boonstra (1920) was active in the resistance movement against the German occupation, in Groningen in the Netherlands during World War II. He was caught and taken to Herzogenbusch concentration camp. On 18 August 1944 he was executed, together with 12 other hostages.
Dirk Boonstra may refer to:
Dirk is a Dutch and Low German given name, nickname or stage name, and surname. It may refer to:
Van de Ven, Van der Ven and Vandeven are toponymic surnames of Dutch origin. The original bearer may have lived or worked near a ven, a Dutch term for a small lake, like fen derived from the Proto-Germanic fanją. Van der Plas and Van der Poel are equivalent Dutch surnames. The name can be found as early as the first part of the 14th century in Oirschot. The name is quite common in the Netherlands, ranking 41st in 2007. People with this surname include:
Van Loon is a Dutch language toponymic surname. "Loon", an Old Dutch dative plural of "Lo" meaning "near/in the woods", is the name of multiple towns and two medieval counties in the Low Countries. Notable people with the surname include:
Van der Burg is a Dutch toponymic surname meaning "from the fortress / stronghold". Variations are Van de Burg, Van den Brug, Van den Burgh and Van der Burgh. Anglicized versions of these names show a variety of agglutinations and capitalizations. Notable people with the surname include:
De Smet or Desmet is a Dutch occupational surname. It is a regional form of "the smith" very common in East and West Flanders. It was the tenth most common name in Belgium in 1997. Notable people with the surname include:
Hoogland is a Dutch toponymic surname meaning "high land". It could have referred to the town Hoogland in Utrecht province or to any elevated land. People with this surname include:
Valkenburg or Van Valkenburg is a Dutch toponymic surname indicating an origin in Valkenburg, Dutch Limburg or Valkenburg, South Holland. The name occurs with or without the tussenvoegsel van and has many spelling variants. People with the name include:
