Learning from the past for tomorrow’s peace

Together we remembered the victims, warmly welcomed our liberators and celebrated our liberation together.

Not always things went well.

May this report cause the Mayor and Aldermen, the entire Valkenburg City Council and all those many volunteers who participated in this project to join hands and, as long as there is still a war anywhere in the world, come together at our Peace Flame to spread that message of Peace.

Let us seek together a way to settle our conflicts other than that of physical or verbal violence.

Perhaps then we will succeed, TOGETHER, that the children of our grandchildren, wherever they are in the world, may grow up in freedom and peace.

The workgroup 80 years of liberty Valkenburg aan de Geul.

Editors of this report:, alphabetically by last name: Jo van Aken, Cleo Janssen, Arnold Schunck and Jos Smeets.
Statement of account: Hub Aussems, Marjo Bouwens.

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