ÛNDERWRÂLD moarn draach ik de bernespultsjes, sjuery foar fersierde weinen, bûn fan jonge feinten, de man dy’t stroffelet oer de grins tusken dronken nacht en matinee de band mei jierren-80-hits, froulju dy’t as frije fammen út it sicht fan manlju dûnsje oant stilte ûnferwacht nei middernacht wreed de betsjoening brekt ik dimp it roppen, razen, garje glês en flessen, draach it doarpsfeest trije dagen oant fantoomfoarm kantich giel neitiid oantsjut wêr’t op myn fjild de tinte stie krekt dan wit ik yn my in stille wrâld as skielk mei kâlde hân winter boppe my it wetter huverjend ta stilstân set, in souderflier fan iis oer my hinne leit fan grien nei brún myn gers rustkje mei yn rêst, myn oerflak wurdt ta ûnderwrâld, ik my ta sliepen lis en mins en feest ferjit, troch myn dream it lûd fan izers sjit
By 16 April, the major part of Friesland had been liberated. But some important targets of the Canadians had not yet been achieved. They wanted to win the Frisian ports and the Head of the Afsluitdijk from the Germans as quickly as possible. But they would be hard fought. Both the ports and the Afsluitdijk were used by German soldiers to escape to North Holland.
As elsewhere in Friesland, the Canadians were helped by resistance fighters from the Dutch Domestic Armed Forces (N.B.S.) They suffered several casualties near Makkum. On 16 April, Schelte Bruinsma and Simon Sipma were killed in an attack on a farm in which the Germans had entrenched themselves. The next day, another group tried to occupy a bridge under Makkum. However, the Germans caught sight of them and in the ensuing gunfight, Rinnert Anema, Roelof van der Meer and Hendrik Postma were killed. Makkum was liberated on 18 April, as one of the last villages in Friesland.
The monument at the Buren in Makkum was unveiled in 1952 in commemoration of the members of the Dutch Domestic Armed Forces who were killed around the village during the struggle for liberation.