Stichting Verenigde Adoptanten Amerikaanse Oorlogsgraven
Foundation United Caretakers American War Graves
Welcome on the Adoptiegraven.nl homepage, website of the Stichting Verenigde Adoptanten Amerikaanse Oorlogsgraven (Foundation United Caretakers American War Graves) in the Netherlands, which was founded in July 2011. Adoptiegraven.nl, however, has been online since 2007, but not as the official foundation it is now.
This foundation aims to help caretakers of American war graves with their research on the soldier whose graves they have adopted via various projects. Therefore, you will find on our website various tips on where to find and request information on American soldiers who served in World War Two and who gave their lives for freedom. Some of these tips can be found in the "Research" section on this website or on our forum. Furthermore, the foundation will do research to the soldiers buried in the American War Cemeteries Ardennes, Henri-Chapelle, and Netherlands itself.
Of course, you will also find more information on our Foundation and our projects on this website, including on our Fields of Honor - Database, in which information can be found on thousands of American soldiers buried in overseas American war cemeteries in Belgium and the Netherlands.
Please note that this is not the website of the Foundation Adoption Graves American Cemetery Margraten. To go to their website, please click here.
Forum
On our forum it is possible to show how your research to 'your' soldier develops and to request help in your research. Other than that, the forum is also a place where other adopters meet and discuss various topics. Moreover, you can also download letters and forms from our forums, which you can use to request information in the United States.
Especially for non-Dutch speaking members, we have set up two forums in our English section. We hope to welcome you there! Please click here to go to the forums.
Fields of Honor - Database
The Fields of Honor - Database (formerly known as the Adoptiegraven-Database) is a website maintained by Adoptiegraven.nl and has information about thousands of soldiers who have been buried or commemorated at the American War Cemeteries Ardennes, Henri-Chapelle and Netherlands. Many other years of work will have to be done on the database to list every soldier that has been buried or commemorated at one of the above listed cemeteries. Click here to visit the database.
Shop
In our shop, we sell products which will help you with your research to the soldier whose grave you taking care of or products related to our foundation's mission. Whenever you buy something in our shop, you will support our foundation. At the moment, we only ship to Europe and North America. Click here to go to our Shop.
About the Foundation
Stichting Verenigde Adoptanten Amerikaanse Oorlogsgraven (Foundation United Caretakers American War Graves) was founded in July 2011. Formerly, it was known as just Adoptiegraven.nl, a website that was founded by current chairman Sebastiaan Vonk in 2007. It was not until 2011, that it became the official foundation it now is.
The goals of this foundation are up to a high extent similar to those which Adoptiegraven.nl had. The foundation aims to gather information on our American liberators in World War Two and to make this information available to a bigger public through the Fields of Honor - Database. Furthermore, the foundation hopes to serve as an online platform where caretakers can meet for purposes that include, but that are not limited to, sharing information about the soldiers whose graves they have adopted and helping each other with their researches.
More information on the foundation's board members and volunteers, the foundation's history, and how you could contribute to this foundation, can be found here.
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Support us!
Do you want to (financially) support our Foundation and our work? That is possible in various ways! You can do so by making a single donation to our foundation. Moreover, it also is possible to become a sponsor of our Foundation. Read here how you can help.
About us
Stichting Verenigde Adoptanten Amerikaanse Oorlogsgraven
Baan 28
5171 NC Kaatsheuvel
The Netherlands
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