The Rusthof cemetery is located in Oud-Leusden

Oud-Leusden

Oud-Leusden is a hamlet in the Dutch province of Utrecht. It is a part of the municipality of Leusden, and lies about 4 km south of Amersfoort.-History:...

, Leusden municipality, Utrecht Province, Netherlands

Netherlands

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. It is the largest cemetery that services Amersfoort

Amersfoort

Amersfoort is a municipality and the second largest city of the province of Utrecht in central Netherlands. The city is growing quickly but has a well-preserved and protected medieval centre. Amersfoort is one of the largest railway junctions in the country, because of its location on two of the...

, which is 4 km south of. Therefore it is often called Amersfoort General Cemetery or Amersfoort (Old Leusden) Cemetery or other variants. Address: Dodeweg 31, Leusden, Utrecht, Netherlands.

It is a partly civilian partly military cemetery. Buried there are the victims of the World War II

World War II

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, including 238 soldiers and pilots killed in action from the British Commonwealth, Poland

Poland

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, Belgium

Belgium

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 and France

France

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, also World War II military victims from Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia

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, Greece

Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....

, Hungary

Hungary

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, Romania

Romania

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, Portugal

Portugal

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, Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia

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 and Italy

Italy

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 (World War I and II), as well as 865 soldiers from the Soviet Union

Soviet Union

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. A number of Soviet victims came from the nearby Kamp Amersfoort

Kamp Amersfoort

Amersfoort concentration camp was a Nazi concentration camp in Amersfoort in the Netherlands. The official name was "Polizeiliches Durchgangslager Amersfoort", P.D.A. or Police Transitcamp Amersfoort. During the years of 1941 to 1945, over 35,000 prisoners were kept here...

. The Soviet soldiers were eventually reburied in 1947/1948 from some other places in what is called "the Russian Honor Field" or "the Soviet Field of Glory".