Index

• Introduction
• Each time again I’ll cry Poem Leo Vroman
• The team of 80 years of liberation Valkenburg aan de Geul
• The Requiem for Auschwitz, September 8, 2024, St. Jans Church, ’s-Hertogenbosch
• Liberation concert, Amerikanischer Soldatenfriedhof in Margraten
  Buch für Grabpaten, Amerikanischer Soldatenfriedhof in Margraten
• Exhibition Through their Eyes, Museum Valkenburg, Sept. 8 - Nov. 24, 2024
• Visit of the US WW2 veterans to Valkenburg, Sept. 11, 2024
  • Visit of the veterans to the primary school of Broekhem, 1 p.m.
  • Visit veterans to Adelante, 2:30 p.m.
  • Visit to the Fluweelen Grot (Velvet Cave), 4:00 p.m.
• Program September 13, 2014
• Towards 80 years of freedom. Claar Habets, Church of St. Gerlach.
• The 7 candles for freedom were lit.
  • 1st candle: The forgotten Holocaust. Bluma Meinhardt and Roger Moreno
  • 2nd candle [1]: Brought to Valkenburg as a Jewish child by the resistance.
              [2]: Piet Cohen and Philip Soesan
  • 3rd candle: Impressive times, those liberation days.
              Ans Crolla about her father Ton
  • 4th candle: The resistance [1]. [1]. Two descendants of Valkenburg resistance fighters:
              Anton Laeven and Gerda Schunck
              The Resistance [2]. Gerda Schunck about “Paul Simons”
  • 5th candle: What means freedom to me?
              A Valkenburg eyewitness: Adri van de Meiracker
  • 6th candle: Two cousins born in a cave in Sept. 1944
              Frans Wolters Sibbergroeve (Sibbe quarry), Frans Wolters Heidegroeve
  • 7th candle: We cherish freedom
              Global Exploration and Adelante
• Celebration in the church of Houthem What mean freedom and peace to me? Claar Habets
• Tree with peace wishes in the church of Houthem
• Liberation celebration St. Nicholas and Barabara church. Parish priest H. Jansen [1]
            Parish priest H. Jansen [2]
• Presentation book Valkenburg 2024 – 80 jaar bevrijd (Valkenburg 2024 - 80 years of liberation) by Alderman Kevin Rouwette
• Adventure walk for the school children
  • Adventure walk in the hands of Veterans Valkenburg Jos Rodenburg.
  • Folder adventure walk
  • Point 1 [1] – A little wish for peace, Riet Nijland
              [2] – Peace doves in the Nicolaas/Barbara church
  • Points 2 en 3 Resistance in Valkenburg and Schin op Geul
          Point 2 - Gerda Schunck about her father Pierre Schunck in Valkenburg.
          Point 3 – Schin op Geul: Anton Laeven about Jean Caubo and his father Albert Laeven
  • Point 4 – Museum Valkenburg – Exhibition Through Their Eyes
          Point 5 – Pub Henry VIII Dutch Veterans Valkenburg
  • Point 6 – Stumbling Stones Guy Caelen and Selma Benedik
  • Point 7 – Dioramas Jos Stevens. Stories told by Piet Reinaerts
  • Point 8 – Gemeentegrot (Municipal Cave)
  • Point 9 – Operation Steeple Chase Old Hickory, Roger Zoontjes
              Operation Steeple Chase, the story.
              The first liberators enter Valkenburg. Arnold Schunck
  • Point 10 – Hiding in the caves: Fluweelen grot (Velvet Cave)
  • Point 11 – US Medical Post, Berkelpoort, Joep Zoontjes, Old Hickory re-enactors
    Point 12 – Valkenburg Library, Jan Schetters and Frans Wolters
  • Point 13 – Children, Art and Peace, Marij van Aken
  • Point 14 – Restaurant De oude Meulen. Eyewitnesses.
    Point 15 – Henri Morgan. Ruud Coenen and Els Diederen
    Point 17 – Den Halder Castle Survivors of the Holocaust.
              In hiding in South Limburg, Philip Soesan
  • Point 18 – The forgotten Holocaust, Bluma Meinhardt
  • Point 19 – How I experienced the liberation in Valkenburg, Adrie van den Meiracker
  • Point 20 – The US army camp
              Liberation songs, Trio Happy Hendriks
              Post 20 a, The field kitchen of GOC Kerkrade led by Danielle Boumans
• The schools
  Sibbe–Valkenburg and back thanks to the great cooperation of Hans Otermans
  The school children and the anniversary book US WW2 veterans signing for the school kids
  A short report from Sibbe Elementary School
• The victorious entering of 80 historic US WW2 vehicles into our city on September 13, 2024.
  In 3 of the jeeps the US WW2 veterans.
  Perhaps the most revealing photo of the past few days
  Honoring WW2 veterans on Walramplein square
  Our liberators, poem by Sara Curfs
• Onder de Sterren (Under the stars) - Children’s theater Valkenburg
• Liberation Festival in the Open Air Theatre, by Jef Pluijmen
• Peace vigil Goudsberg Valkenburg, September 17th
• PEACE 1944 – 2024, Werner Kreutzer
• Book: Valkenburg 2024 – 80 jaar bevrijd (liberated 80 years ago)
• Peace Week Valkenburg [1] Announcement Peace Vigil
  Peace Week Valkenburg [2] Stories Riet Nijland and Nan van de Ruhr, Amigos do Brasil foundation
• Learning from the past for tomorrow’s peace
• Statement of account: Hub Aussems, Marjo Bouwens

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