Bevrijdingsmonument

Bevrijdingsmonument stands in Eindhoven in the Netherlands as a bronze sculpture group commemorating local victims of the Second World War. Three bowed male figures represent the citizen, the soldier and the resistance fighter. Paul Grégoire designed the composition with contributions from Ludwig Oswald Wenckebach, Jan van der Laan and C.J.M. van de Ven. They rise from a round shell-limestone base beside limestone relief tiles showing scenes from wartime Eindhoven. A bronze torch faces the figures, while a tiled plateau and concrete slabs frame the memorial.

Granite blocks around it carry names of local war dead. The engraved names follow groups shaped by wartime experience. Later additions broadened the memorial’s name record. They include victims who died in Eindhoven and residents who died elsewhere, including Sinti and Jewish people arrested in the city. A later review changed that recorded list. It removed entries outside the criteria and added victims directly connected with wartime deaths. The repeated cross motif marks the highest sacrifice. An inscription on the base asks visitors to remember the dead and their sacrifice before leaving.