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The Resistance Memorial Cross or Resistance Commemorative Cross is a medal awarded in the Netherlands to members of the Dutch resistance during the Second World War.

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Aart Hendrik Alblas, aka Klaas de Waard, was a Dutch navy officer, resistance member and Engelandvaarder. He participated in several resistance operations and is one of the most highly decorated Dutch resistance members.

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Willem Arondeus was a Dutch artist and author who joined the Dutch anti-Nazi resistance movement during World War II. He participated in the bombing of the Amsterdam public records office to hinder the Nazi German effort to identify Dutch Jews and others wanted by the Gestapo. Arondeus was caught and executed soon after his arrest. Yad Vashem recognized Arondeus as Righteous Among the Nations.

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Jacobus Albertus Wilhelmus "Jaap" Burger was a Dutch politician of the Social Democratic Workers' Party (SDAP) and later co-founder of the Labour Party (PvdA) and jurist. He was granted the honorary title of Minister of State on 4 January 1975.

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Willempje "Willemijn" Petroff-van Gurp was a Dutch resistance member during World War II, where she was a courier for the Landelijke Organisatie voor Hulp aan Onderduikers and Landelijke Knokploegen. She provided them with ration stamps, forged identity cards and one time dynamite. She was arrested in The Hague on 10 June 1944. From the Oranjehotel in Scheveningen she was moved via Herzogenbusch concentration camp and Ravensbrück concentration camp on 15 October 1944 to the Agfa-Commando, an outer camp of Dachau concentration camp.

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Cornelis Pieter "Piet" van den Hoek was a Dutch resistance fighter during World War II. Van den Hoek was one of the few knights of the Dutch Military William Order.

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Pieter Johannes Hoets was a Dutch Engelandvaarder, an active Dutch resistance fighter against the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands in WW-II.

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Jan de Koning was a Dutch politician of the defunct Anti-Revolutionary Party (ARP) and later the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) party and social geographer.

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Sicco Leendert Mansholt was a Dutch farmer, politician and diplomat of the Social Democratic Workers' Party (SDAP) and later the Labour Party (PvdA), who served as the President of the European Commission from 1 March 1972 until 5 January 1973.

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Wilhelm Klaus Norbert "Norbert" Schmelzer was a Dutch politician and diplomat of the defunct Catholic People's Party (KVP) now merged into the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) party and economist.

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Pieter Meindert Schreuder was a Dutch resistance leader in the occupied Netherlands during the Second World War.