“Detention Center Schiphol East, Sunday 26th of October, 7 p.m. “Some communication is going on there”“There’s some communicacation going onsays Martin. Night has fallen over Schiphol Airport. The landscape is dominated by all sorts of electric lightning, securing the vision of the pilots landing their planes, securing the vision of the prison personnel guarding their [...]

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For more detailed information on the program of the 3rd Commemoration of the Schiphol Fire, see the Dutch version Together. Remember the dead. Create new life. The survivors are welcomed with coffee in the blue room of the Nicolaaskerk in Amsterdam by Theo Beussink. Today we commemorate our eleven killed friends by visiting the eleven [...]

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Compensation for Prison Block K–Dutch State offers 10.000 euros for Schiphol Fire Victims By Bart Zuidervaart Trouw, Dutch daily newspaper, Saturday, October 25, 2008 Dutch version: http://www.trouw.nl/schipholbrand Sixteen survivors of the fire in the prison block at Schiphol-East will get 10,000 euros immaterial indemnity. This amount will only be paid to those who can prove [...]

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