Valtherbos Hiding Place – Dolmen D35 loop from Valthe
Valtherbos Hiding Place – Dolmen D35 loop from Valthe
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Valtherbos Hiding Place – Dolmen D35 loop from Valthe
06:08
24.2km
50m
Hiking
Hard hike. Very good fitness required. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.
Last updated: May 19, 2026
Waypoints
Start point
Bus stop
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6.38 km
Archaeological Site
Archaeological Site
9.03 km
Valther Forest
Highlight • Forest
Always beautiful is the drumming of the great spotted woodpecker or the black woodpecker that you regularly hear here. A woodpecker does this drumming for various reasons; to mark out a territory, to make it known that a partner is being sought, or to find food. With its drumming it chases insects away which, startled by the vibrations in the bark, emerge. An easy prey for the lightning-fast woodpecker. The Valtherbos was created in the 1920s, but contains traces from a much more distant past. Here you will find no fewer than four dolmens, ancient burial mounds and a pingo ruin. The hiding place you encounter along the way tells the impressive story of 16 Jewish Emmen residents who managed to survive the Second World War by hiding here.
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12.6 km
Hunebed Dolmen
Highlight • Historical Site
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19.8 km
Bench With a View of the Clearing
Highlight • Viewpoint
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22.5 km
A-Tree and 'De Schaar' Memorial at the Second Hiding Place
Highlight • Historical Site
Oldenburger carved an A into the tree with a pair of scissors so that he could easily find the hiding place. Because Oldenburger was a textile worker at the time, he always carried the scissors with him. Thanks to his efforts, 16 Jewish people in hiding survived the war.
The text on the plaque is by the Jewish writer and poet Otto Weiss.
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22.6 km
Hiding Place 2 (Valtherbos)
Highlight • Historical Site
From the autumn of 1942, Albertus Zefat, the owner of a chicken farm in Valthe, hid 16 Jewish people in hiding in the chicken coop behind his house. Because this was noticed, a hole of 6 x 3 metres was dug in the hard forest soil in the Valtherbos for the people in hiding in the autumn of 1942. In 1943, the hole – covered with trunks, branches and leaves – was discovered by accident, but this had no consequences. The hole was moved to its current location. Albertus Zefat himself was shot dead in July 1944 when he refused to tell where the Jews were.
The people in hiding were cared for by a group of people from the village and stayed there until 11 April 1945. Ab van Dien, one of the people in hiding, wrote his memories of the time in the hiding place in his book ‘De Opgejaagden’. Fourteen Jewish people in hiding survived the occupation, but a number of their helpers in the village did not. At the liberation, a total of about 20 people emerged. These were Jews and other people in hiding.
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23.0 km
Valtherbos Hiding Place
Highlight • Historical Site
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23.4 km
Pingoruine Glacier Hollow
Highlight • Natural Monument
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23.5 km
Dolmen D35
Highlight • Historical Site
In 1871, the province of Drenthe bought the dolmen from the boermarke (medieval collective of larger farmers) of Valthe.
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24.2 km
End point
Bus stop
Way Types & Surfaces
Way Types
12.1 km
8.06 km
2.95 km
592 m
546 m
Surfaces
10.7 km
7.36 km
4.69 km
1.02 km
396 m
102 m
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