War Memorial & Liberation Tree Heerjansdam

This combined war memorial can be found in the garden belonging to the church and consists of a so called peace tree with the following text on a Plaque:

Planted in freedom with hope for peace.
The youth of Heerjansdam

Next to the tree and on a small square there is a sloping memorial stone with plaques on both sides.
The text on the left hand Plaque can be translated as follows:
In memory
Of those that fell

The right hand plaque memorizes those that died in the Dutch East Indies 1945 – 1950.

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Source

• Text: Mia van den Berg, Dick de Bruijne
• Photos: Dick de Bruijne (1), Peter Schipper (2, 3, 4)