Civilian War Victims Memorial, Doornenburg, Holland
This village remained in German hands until April 1945 when it was liberated on Easter Sunday. In October 1944 following Operation Market Garden, Doornenburg was repeatedly bombed by the Allies, the late Medieval Castle being badly damaged. On 12 October the Germans evacuated all the population and then blew up the Roman Catholic church. The Memorial stands where the church altar used to be. Designed by Van Donsel, it was erected on the 4th May 1958. It is in the form of a Phoenix rising from the ashes on top of a bronze sphere mounted on concrete pillars. The names of the victims are inscribed on it, the youngest, one year old, the oldest 84, with several from the same family. Next to it is the church's altar stone bearing the inscription, Im memory of the victims of the 1940-1945 War
