World War II Commemorations in
Luxembourg in 2008
Nederlandse versie, |
In Luxembourg: |
WWI Commemorations |
Informations about WWII commemorations
in Luxembourg :
http://www.gouvernement.lu/dossiers/viepol/liberation/index.html
Info: Service Information et Presse (SIP). 33, boulevard Roosevelt.
L-2450 Luxembourg.
T: +352 478 2181. Fax: +352 47 02 85.
E-mail: info@sip.etat.lu
All over Luxembourg - 27 Februar
Notional Day of Resistance.
Info:
Service Information et Presse (SIP). 33, boulevard Roosevelt. L-2450 Luxembourg.
T: +352 478 2181. Fax: +352 47 02 85.
E-mail: info@sip.etat.lu
Luxembourg-Hamm American Military
Cemetery - 28 May
Memorial
Day
Info: American Military Cemetery.
Mr. Leland Atkinson. 50 Val du Scheid, L-2517 Luxembourg.
T: +352-43 17 27.
Fax: +352-42 03 05.
Info: DOD World War II Commemorative Events, Commemorative
Committee, RPN, Suite 1100A, 1777 N. Kent Street, US-Arlington, VA 22209.
E-mail: wwii60th@hqda.army.mil
Internet: http://www.usmemorialday.org/
Left to right: 1-/ General Patton was involved in a car accident and passed away
a few days later. He is burried here.
2-/ Main gate of the Hamm-Luxembourg
cemetery.
3-/ Memorial with a chapel inside. The text says: "Here is enshrined
the memory of valor and sacrifice".
Source: http://www.warmuseums.nl/gal/083gal.htm
Luxembourg
City - 23 June
Wreath-laying ceremony at the Allied Memorial on the occasion of National Day.
Info: Luxembourg Tourism Office. Box 1001, L-1010 Luxembourg.
T: +352-42 82 82-10. Fax: +352-42 82 82-38.
The railway-station of Hollerich (Luxemburg town), trom where 2.906 torcibly enlisted
persons, 65 patriots and most members of the Jewish community residing in the
Grand-Duchy were deported.
Luxemburg
- 3 July
Remembrance of the Shoah.
Info:
Wiltz - 31 August
Ceremony at the National Monument
commemorating the Strike on 31 August - 1 September, 1942
Info: Hotel
de Ville. Box 60, L-9501 Wiltz.
T: +352-95 99 39-1. Fax: +352-95 72 05
E-mail: comwiltz@pt.lu
National Monument of the Strike on 31 August, 1942 in Wiltz (Source: http://www.wiltz.lu/)
Schifflange
- 1 September
Ceremony at the factory commemorating the Strike on 31 August - 1 September, 1942
Info: Hotel de Ville. Box 11, L-3801 Schifflange.
T: +352-54 50 61-1.
Fax: +352-54 42 02
E-mail: secretariat@schifflange.lu
All over Luxembourg -13 October
National Commemoration Day, commemorating the referendum on 10 October, 1941,
when 96% of the Luxemburgers answered to a referendum organized by occupying Germany
to be only Luxemburgers instead of becoming Germans
Info: Luxembourg
Tourism Office. Box 1001, L-1010 Luxembourg.
T: +352-42 82 82-10. Fax: +352-42
82 82-38.
Luxemburg - 12 November
Remembrance day of the forces enlisting and of the return
of the luxemburgish prisoners of war.
Info:
Website
of Belgian National Remembrance Committe
