Ecury (other)
Ecury or Écury may refer to: People * Boy Ecury (1922–1944), member of the Dutch Resistance in World War II * Nydia Ecury (1926–2012), Afro-Dutch writer, translator and actress Places * Écury-le-Repos, Marne department, France * Écury-sur-Coole, Marne department, France See also * Ecurie (other) Ecurie may refer to: * Écurie, a commune in the Pas-de-Calais département in France * Several car racing teams (compare '' scuderias'') : ** Ecurie Belge ** Ecurie Bleue ** Ecurie Bonnier ** Ecurie Ecosse, a former motor racing team from Scot ...

Boy Ecury
Boy Ecury (23 April 1922 – 6 November 1944) was a member of the Dutch Resistance in World War II. Biography He was born in Oranjestad, Aruba, an island of the Dutch Antilles in a large family. Ecury was born the seventh of thirteen children. His father was a wealthy businessman. His given name was Segundo Jorge Adelberto Ecury, but he went by the nickname Boy and it is by that name that he is remembered. After a brief stint at a military academy in Puerto Rico, together with his brother, he was sent to study in the Netherlands. Ecury graduated in 1937 with a diploma in commerce from the Brother of St. Louis School in Oudenbosch, and he did a lot of travelling around the Netherlands. He lived there when World War II started in 1939 and witnessed first hand the Nazi invasion in 1940. While in the Dutch city of Tilburg, Ecury became friends with another young man, , also from the Antilles, who was part of an underground resistance group in the city. The group carried out sab ...
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Nydia Ecury
Nydia Ecury (2 February 19262 March 2012) was a celebrated Aruban-Dutch writer, translator and actress. She published five collections of poetry and translated plays of major European and American playwrights into the Papiamentu language, helping to develop the native dialect into a cultural language. The recipient of numerous awards, including the Chapi di Plata literary prize, Ecury was honored as a knight of the Order of Orange-Nassau. Early life Nydia Maria Enrica Ecury was born on 2 February 1926 in Oranjestad, Aruba in a fishing village called Rancho in the west area of the capital to Ana Paulina Wilhelmina Ernst and Nicasio Segundo Ecury. Her father was an honorary consul to Haiti and a first-generation freeborn man of African descent. Her mother was an orphan from the main island of the Dutch Caribbean; Curaçao. Boy Ecury, her brother, had joined the Dutch resistance fighters, and was executed by the Germans during World War II He became Aruba's national hero. In total ...
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Écury-le-Repos
Écury-le-Repos () is a commune in the Marne department in north-eastern France. See also *Communes of the Marne department The following is a list of the 613 communes in the French department of Marne. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020):Ecurylerepos {{Marne-geo-stub ...
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Écury-sur-Coole
Écury-sur-Coole () is a commune in the Marne department in north-eastern France. See also *Communes of the Marne department The following is a list of the 613 communes in the French department of Marne. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020):Ecurysurcoole {{Marne-geo-stub ...
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