VALKENBURG 2024 – 80 years free

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Learning from the past for tomorro’s peace

Adventure walk Valkenburg liberated!
Having to shelter in the caves with barely anything to eat and a bucket as a toilet. Having to travel as a three and a half year old girl with an “unknown uncle" all the way from Amsterdam by train to Houthem. Having to wear a yellow star and therefore be taken away into limbo.
To witness your father or older brother being rounded up to go to work in Germany. Being liberated by gum-chewing Americans and being treated to a hot dog and Coca Cola! Chewing gum? Coke?

What do you know about WWII?
On September 13, 2024, we will celebrate 80 years of liberation! At noon the whole youth of Valkenburg will gather in the " Old Church". The resistance guides the first American soldiers into Valkenburg. The liberation is coming. Walking past 16 different historical sites you will experience now, September 13, 2024, what it was like then in September 1944. That war is not a game and peace is not self-evident

See you!!

A unique book about the liberation of Valkenburg 80 years ago!
Eighty previously untold stories.
How we (the people of Valkenburg of those days) experienced the liberation. How it felt to live under the German occupation. How it was to see that our neighbor suddenly had to wear a yellow star. And later was simply rounded up never to return. How it felt to suddenly have to get some belongings together to take shelter in one of the caves.
And how defeated we were when we were allowed to go back home and saw that all the bridges had been blown up and so many houses destroyed.

The book will be released on September 13 and will be available to participants of the Belevingstocht on presentation of this sign-off card at the special price of €5 (retail price €15) from 4:30 p.m. at St. Nicholas Church and on sale from September 14 at Natuurshop Madelief
Dr. Erenstraat 8B, 6301 DX Valkenburg a/d Geul
9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. (except Sundays)

Route belevingstocht (Adventure Walk)