1st Edition
Faces of Liberation The Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery
320 Pages
by
Amsterdam University Press
Dutch edition: Gezichten van de Bevrijding - Nederlandse versie: Gezichten van de Bevrijding . The Canadian War Cemetery in Groesbeek is the final resting place of 2,618 soldiers from Canada and the British Commonwealth. Many of them were killed during the liberation of Europe in the final months of the Second World War. In addition, the impressive Groesbeek Memorial bears the engraved... Read more
Foreword, Introduction, 1. Transnational memorial landscapes of liberation, 2. The Canadian role in the Rhine Offensive, 3. The History of the Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery, 4. Remembering with stories and images: The Faces to Graves Initiative, 5. First Nation soldiers in the Canadian Forces, 6. The Canadian Liberation of the Netherlands in Dutch Cultural Memory, 7. The Liberation of the Netherlands in Canadian Cultural Memory, List of graves and missing persons, Literature, List of volunteers, Biographies of authors
Biography
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 is Associate Professor of Cultural History at Utrecht University and Professor of Transatlantic Relations at Radboud University Nijmegen.
