Media item

Unveiling of the monument made by Zadkine

Week number 53-21

Newsreels in which Dutch subjects of a certain week are presented.

Type:
video
Length:
01:12
Publication date:
15 May 1953
User:
Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
Creator:
Polygoon-Profilti (producer) / Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (curator)
Source:
WEEKNUMMER532-HRE0000FB29

Stately unveiling of the monument 'De Verwoeste Stad' (The destroyed city) by the wife of mayor Van Walsum of Rotterdam, in the presence of her husband and the sculptor. The memorial commemorates the German bombardment in the May days of 1940. Archive material of the destroyed city center.