Names, faces, stories

 

Every name on our cemetery has a face and a story.

Every name stands for a young man who left his home, his family, parents, wife, children, and started an unknown and dangerous journey.

That journey ended here in the Netherlands.

For our freedom.

We owe it to them to remember their name and their story.

That we will not forget

 

Faces To Graves Bergen op Zoom (FTGBoZ)
is a project of the Stichting Bevrijding Brabantse Wal (Brabantse Wal Liberation Foundation)

 

in collaboration with

Faces To Graves Groesbeek;

Give every stone a face Holten;

Canadian War Graves Foundation the Netherlands

 

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In the Netherlands we owe our freedom to the allied armies who managed to free us from the German occupiers in 1944 and 1945. During the liberation of especially Southwest Netherlands many soldiers gave their lives. These soldiers are buried at various cemeteries in Europe. Almost all of the soldiers who fell in the southwest of our country are at the Canadian War Cemetery and at the General War Cemetery in Bergen op Zoom

Next to the Canadian cemetery on the Ruytershoveweg you will find the General cemetery. This cemetery contains not only soldiers with the British nationality but also soldiers of other nationalities.

If you walk over these two fields of honor, you will only read the name, age and Regiment of the soldiers on the stones. But who were these men and those few women anyway?

In the Faces To Graves Bergen op Zoom project, research is being done into the backgrounds of all those killed soldiers and with the help of the service files a biography, the personal story, can be drawn up.

All biographies are included in a virtual monument and they are offered to the Educational Center in the, to be realized, Visitor Center Military Cemeteries Brabantse Wal in Bergen op Zoom.

Do you have information, photos, do you know the family of these soldiers, do you want to be part of the project Faces To Graves Bergen op Zoom or do you want to offer other support, please send an email to info@facestogravesbergenopzoom.nl.

 

Click here to see the life stories.