#Story
Sheltering at Voshuttedijk 6
This was once the home of the Orriëns-Rots family, who provided temporary shelter to several individuals attempting to escape the clutches of the German occupiers.
The two most well-known were Hanson and Cheeseman, who were brought to the Orriëns family farm by Henk Hulshof and Hendrik Leemreize. On the night of 8 February 1945, they bailed out of a burning Lancaster bomber, which crashed shortly afterwards on Boschlaan. Hanson later described their time in hiding in detail in his book Sprong in het Duister (“Leap into the Dark”).
A short documentary about this story Verhalen uit de Tweede Wereldoorlog (“Stories from the Second World War”): H. Orriëns can be viewed on the YouTube channel of Stichting 4 en 5 mei Lichtenvoorde: https://youtu.be/Prwh2-pKx0g