The Faces of Margraten
Stichting Fields of Honor
- Title
- Faces of Liberation
- Editors
- Frank Mehring
- Jaap Verheul
- Price
- € 39,99 excl. VAT
- ISBN
- 9789048565849
- Format
- Hardback
- Number of pages
- 320
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 01 - 04 - 2025
- Dimensions
- 2.4 x 3 cm
- Discipline
- History, Art History, and Archaeology
Foreword (Canadian ambassador, mayor of Groesbeek)
Introduction (Frank Mehring and Jaap Verheul)
1. Transnational memorial landscapes of liberation (Frank Mehring and Jaap Verheul)
Norma and Lacy Luks: In memory of Sergeant John Wilbert Walsh (1918-1945)
2. The Canadian role in the Rhine Offensive (John Goheen and Mark Zuehlke)
The Vancouver Police: Honoring those who made the ultimate sacrifice for freedom
3. The History of the Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery (Rense Havinga)
Maarten Dekkers: Born next to a blown up bridge in Beugen
4. Remembering with stories and images: The Faces to Graves Initiative (Alice van Bekkum and Saskia Peters)
Vanessa Kirtz of All Saints High School Kanata, ON
5. First Nation soldiers in the Canadian Forces (Mathilde Roza)
First Nation ceremony
6. The Canadian Liberation of the Netherlands in Dutch Cultural Memory (Frank Mehring and Jaap Verheul)
Freedom Museum
7. The Liberation of the Netherlands in Canadian Cultural Memory (Dean Burry)
- Battlefield Tours: Connecting Continents Across Time
- Life stories: 100-200 stories
- List of graves and missing persons
- Literature
- List of volunteers
- Biographies of authors
Introduction (Frank Mehring and Jaap Verheul)
1. Transnational memorial landscapes of liberation (Frank Mehring and Jaap Verheul)
Norma and Lacy Luks: In memory of Sergeant John Wilbert Walsh (1918-1945)
2. The Canadian role in the Rhine Offensive (John Goheen and Mark Zuehlke)
The Vancouver Police: Honoring those who made the ultimate sacrifice for freedom
3. The History of the Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery (Rense Havinga)
Maarten Dekkers: Born next to a blown up bridge in Beugen
4. Remembering with stories and images: The Faces to Graves Initiative (Alice van Bekkum and Saskia Peters)
Vanessa Kirtz of All Saints High School Kanata, ON
5. First Nation soldiers in the Canadian Forces (Mathilde Roza)
First Nation ceremony
6. The Canadian Liberation of the Netherlands in Dutch Cultural Memory (Frank Mehring and Jaap Verheul)
Freedom Museum
7. The Liberation of the Netherlands in Canadian Cultural Memory (Dean Burry)
- Battlefield Tours: Connecting Continents Across Time
- Life stories: 100-200 stories
- List of graves and missing persons
- Literature
- List of volunteers
- Biographies of authors
Frank Mehring, Jaap Verheul (eds)
Faces of Liberation
The Canadian War Cemetery in Groesbeek is the burial place of 2,618 soldiers from Canada and the British Commonwealth. Most died during the liberation of the Netherlands and the decisive Rhineland Offensive at the end of World War II. This book brings their individual stories to life and offers a moving tribute to the young men who fought for freedom, democracy and peace. With the names of all the fallen and the 1,012 missing on the Memorial Wall, this is a valuable unique reference work that permanently honours their sacrifices.
The book tells the history of the cemetery through a transatlantic lens with a special focus on the efforts of Dutch volunteers and local heritage institutions to keep the collective memory alive. Through rich illustrations, this book shows how the Canadian War Cemetery in Groesbeek has become a living tribute to the ties between the Netherlands and Canada.
The book tells the history of the cemetery through a transatlantic lens with a special focus on the efforts of Dutch volunteers and local heritage institutions to keep the collective memory alive. Through rich illustrations, this book shows how the Canadian War Cemetery in Groesbeek has become a living tribute to the ties between the Netherlands and Canada.
Editors
Frank Mehring
Prof. Frank Mehring, Radboud University Nijmegen, has published extensively on Liberation Songs and performed concerts in collaboration with school choirs using music as a key to learn about the past across different nations. He has produced documentary programs on liberation songs for the Canadian Tulips Festival. They are part of the commemoration ceremonies and available online: https://tulipfestival.ca/songs-of-liberation/
Jaap Verheul
Jaap Verheul is Associate Professor of Cultural History at Utrecht University and Professor of Transatlantic Relations at Radboud University Nijmegen.
