Report of the celebration
Valkenburg 80 years liberated

on September 13, 2024

This report was originally set up to show the sponsors of our Liberation Festival what was done with their money. A print booklet was created and distributed.
But also the many participants in the organization and of course last but not least our spectators from far and wide might want to see that day “happen again.”
So we made an internet version of it. The next step was a translation into English, especially of the pages, which feature the three US war veterans, who participated in our celebration despite their advanced age.

• 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.
• The victorious entering of 80 historic US WW2 vehicles into our city on September 13, 2024.
  In some of the jeeps the US WW2 veterans.
• US WW2 veterans signing things for the school kids
• Our liberators a poem by Sara Curfs

Translation is done.
This report has been translated into German too: e.g. about the peace vigil on the Goudsberg in Valkenburg, where 63 German soldiers died on Sept. 17, 1944, for Valkenburg the last day of the war.
The Requiem für Auschwitz von Roger Moreno
The forgotten Holocaust Memorial for the deported Sinti in Remscheid.

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For more background information on WW2 in our region, see:

| resistance in Valkenburg | genocide of the Jews in Limburg | genocide of the Romani in Limburg and elsewhere | Germans killed in action in Valkenburg-Houthem |