Who Is This Boinero?

In April 2020, the archive of the The Hague Municipality in the Netherlands called on the public to share footage of The Hague during wartime. As a result, numerous new images emerged.

“We often found pictures of a man with a camera, wearing glasses, a beret and a beard. We saw him so often that we became very curious.”

"The man returns in several films in the amateur shots of Dick Laan, filmed around the liberation. “The man often appears unexpectedly on screen and the fact that Dick Laan points his camera at him suggests that they know each other. 

All these images were probably taken on May 7, 1945, as we also encounter our unknown man in the vicinity of other major events on that day, such as the arrest of the Belgian NSB (National Socialist Movement) leader Robert van Genechten on Louis Couperusplein.”