Strijen (population: 9,525) is a town in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland. The municipality covers an area of 57.74 km² (of which 6.37 km² water).
... June 1943 SOE sent Edward Yeo-Thomas for the first time to liaise between Gaullist BCRA and SOE activities in Paris. In February 1944 he was betrayed and Gestapo arrested ...