The Black Liberators Foundation
Founded in 2023, the Black Liberators in the Netherlands Foundation conducts research on the more than 15,000 African American soldiers who contributed to the liberation of the Netherlands during the Second World War.
Pastor Brown visited The Netherlands in 2019
On August 28, 2019, in Atlanta, Georgia’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, Pastor Brown, began a journey that he made some 75 years ago.
Unveiling Wiggins Park
On May 28, 2023, Wiggins Park was opened in memory of Dr. Jefferson Wiggins. The book From Alabama to Margraten was the first book in The Netherlands about the Black Liberators and the segregation in the US Army during WWII, based on memories of Dr. Wiggins. The initiative for the Wiggins Park was taken by […]
Poem Babs Gons, Poet Laureate of the Netherlands
We buried your dead
And honored them with peace
En route to rest eternal
Won liberation before our own release
The complete poem in English here – the Dutch original is on the Dutch site.