When four German soldiers were moving ammunition on 6 February 1945, mother Van Bommel was hanging laundry in the garden. Suddenly she heard a strange sound and at the same time a huge bang followed and she saw the washroom and the of the back house fly into the air. It was a huge havoc around her and everything in her surroundings had disappeared. Miraculously, she herself had not suffered a scratch, but her little daughter Reijertje had just finished the dishes. As she walked out from the kitchen she was hit by a huge blast and air pressure and died on the spot.

In the kitchen was 86-year-old 'grandma Satter' and she had fallen on the stove as a result of the explosion and suffered severe burns. She was transported to the hospital in Zaltbommel in the afternoon but died on the way.

Outside, the neighbour's 8-year-old evacuee, Jannie de Jongh, was hit by flying shrapnel and died instantly.

The four German soldiers involved were all killed. It was a terrible sight for the neighbours, as their bodies were torn apart and pieces had landed here and there.

The soldiers all belonged to the German anti-aircraft battery (Flak) of Haaften. They were first buried in a collective grave in Zaltbommel and transferred to the German Cemetery in Ysselsteyn after the war.

On 5 May 2015, a memorial stone was placed at the bottom of the Waalband dike in the floodplains of Waardenburg in memory of the perished girls.