Authors Juriaan van Waalwijk, Moniek Hover, Erik van den Dungen, Vincent Neveu Location Overloon Theme Battle1944 Harrie van Daal, born in 1908, was a civil servant at the Municipality of Overloon–Maashees (later to become Vierlingsbeek). He had visited the...
Author Moniek Hover & Juriaan van Waalwijk Location Son en Breugel Theme Battle 1944 The liberation of the Netherlands began in September 1944 with the start of Operation Market Garden. Numerous paratroopers and aircraft with military equipment landed in the area...
Location Dance Hall in Eindhoven Author Laurie Wolffs William Baird was born into a musical family in Canada in 1922. His mother played the piano and his father the violin. During the summers, there was work to be done on the farm. William used the winters to learn...
Location Museum Overloon Author Jack Didden Theme Battle 1944 In 1940 George Eardley from Congleton was conscripted and in July 1944 he joined the Shropshire Regiment. He received his first award, the Military Medal the following month. But George was really an...
Location Halsteren Author Jack Didden His name was Werner Klemke. He got his baptism of fire at the front line in North Brabant. Just like every other German in the Third Reich, Klemke was called up for military service. He was stationed in the Luftwaffe in the...
Location Waalwijk Town Hall Author Jack Didden On 6 September 1944, the day after Crazy Tuesday, armed SS troops marched along the Langstraat out of ‘s-Hertogenbosch on their way to the front near Antwerp. They became very angry when they saw flags flying everywhere....
Location Heusden Author Hannie Visser-Kieboom “I was always compared to the other Hans”, said Hans van Alphen (1946) from Uden. During the bloody liberation of Brabant, his mother Riek found refuge in Heusden together with her four sons (5, 8, 13 and 14 years old)....
Author Tjeu Cornet Location Eerde/Veghel Theme Battle 1944 The Second World War erupted with brutal force and bloodshed. Every now and again there was a glimmer of hope for peace and happiness. Love kept people going. The love between Elaine Smith and her paratrooper...
Location Sint Anthonis, the corner where the Lepelstraat turns into the Kolonel Silvertoplaan Author Elias van der Plicht September 1944: the allied troops arrived in the south of the Netherlands. The first communities in Limburg and North Brabant had been liberated....
Location Western/central Brabant/Dongen Author Tjeu Cornet It was not only the Canadians, British and Americans who helped to liberate our country — in October 1944, some 16,000 Polish troops crossed the border into Brabant from Belgium. En route from Baarle-Nassau to...
