Sebastiaan Vonk is a 31-year-old Dutch citizen behind Faces of Margraten. It’s an initiative to track down pictures of the more than 10,000 American soldiers buried or memorialized at the Netherlands American Cemetery.
Vonk has help from volunteers as he digs through newspaper archives and libraries. He researches genealogical sites and contacts families. He does this to put faces to the names of fallen American soldiers.
The cemetery is in the village of Margraten, Netherlands. Thousands of headstones honor Americans who served in World War II. Vonk is a Dutch historian. He has undertaken this project to provide a deeper understanding of every veteran. He wanted to offer more than the names and ages of the soldiers.
“My relatives and ancestors suffered a lot during World War II and they were so grateful for their liberation. The next generations are also very grateful that…
