Europe Remembers on Tour!  UK & Normandy

Over two weeks in May and June, the Europe Remembers team went to the UK and Normandy to launch an amazing two-year journey to hike the Liberation Route Europe’s International Hiking Trail from London to Berlin while tracing the footsteps of the western Allies during the liberation of Europe in 1944-1945.

Week 1: London to Portsmouth

On May 20th, the team headed to London for the official kick-off of the tour at the Churchill War Rooms featuring historian and BBC presenter Dan Snow and a number of veterans. Over the next three days, the team hiked from Alton to Portsmouth, discussing the “friendly invasion” of American/Canadian troops in the UK and the preparations for D-Day. The UK leg concluded on May 23rd at the D-Day Story Portsmouth with a special celebration with Lord Mayor, David Fuller, who was appointed a special ambassador of the Liberation Route, and a special live-streamed event at the historic Golden Lion Pub. 

• - Exhibition Eisenhower – De Gaulle. Alliance and Friendship in War and Peace, Paris Army Museum (from June 1st to September 29th)
• - Exhibition Rockwell, Roosevelt & the Four Freedoms, Caen Memorial Museum (from June 10 to September 27)
• - Commented walk Then and Now, Utah Beach Museum (June 23)

• - D-Day at the Emirates Spinnaker Tower, Spinnaker Tower (from June 1st to 30th)
• - Lighting the way to D-Day Portsmouth, The Royal Navy Submarine Museum (from June 5 to 26th)
• - Exhibition The Polish D-Day Story, The D-Day Story (June 22)
• - Theatre performance D-Day on your Doorstep (June 23)

• - Discussion evening Licence to Spy. Allied military liaison missions in Potsdam, Potsdam Museum (June 20)
• - Neighbourhood walk Secret Karlshorst, Museum Berlin-Karlshorst (from April to October)