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...
Location Goirle Author Eric Alink There was once a German boy who knew all about delicate things. His birthplace was Meißen, Germany’s pottery town. Karl-Heinz Rosch was an unwanted child. His parents’ marriage had broken down early, after which his grandmother and...
