Memorial The Swing Nijmegen

Raadhuishof, Nijmegen
Gelderland, Netherlands, the

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 died. It proposes a four-meter high swing. Since the year 2000, an annual official commemoration is held in memory of all the victims who died during the Allied bombing of Nijmegen on 22 February 1944.

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Text by: Wesley Dankers & Jimmy Hilgen

Photo(s): Jimmy Hilgen (1), Liesbeth van Diggele (2,3,4,5)

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