Memorial The Swing Nijmegen
This Memorial was placed in 2000. It was placed on the Raadhuishof, the location where the Montessori school was located, where 24 children and 8 sisters were killed. It proposes a four-meter high swing. In 2000, an annual official commemoration of the victims who died during the Allied bombing of Nijmegen on 22 February 1944.
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- Text: Wesley Dankers & Anneke Moerenhout
- Photos: Anneke Moerenhout
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23Feb
Toespraak van staatssecretaris Blokhuis bij de herdenking van het bombardement op Nijmegen van 1944
Op vrijdag 22 februari 2019 sprak staatssecretaris Paul Blokhuis (VWS) bij het monument De Schommel tijdens de officiële herdenking van het bombardement op Nijmegen van 22 februari 1944.
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Museum
- National Liberation Museum 1944-1945 - Groesbeek
- Exhibition WWll Town Hall Elst - Elst
- Museum Remember September 1944 - Mook
Point of interest
- Certificate 25th Anniversary Liberation Museum Groesbeek - Groesbeek
- Footpath Airborne Market Garden Beek - Beek (Beek-Ubbergen)
- Square 1944 Nijmegen - Nijmegen
Monument
- Liberation Route Marker 32 - Lent
- Monument Ivan William Cain - Nijmegen
- Exodus Memorial Old Cemetery Huissen - Huissen
Cemetery
- Commonwealth War Cemetery Jonkerbos - Nijmegen
- Graves Civilian Victims R.C. Cemetery Heilig Landstichting - Heilig Landstichting
- Mass Grave Civilian Casualties Angeren Cemetery - Angeren
Fortification
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