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Europe Remembers on Tour!
in Overijssel, Gelderland and Drenthe
After a forced break, Europe Remembers on Tour! was back on the road in the Netherlands, in the province of Overijssel, Gelderland and Drenthe. On our first day, in Overijssel, we visited the Memory Vrijheidsmuseum in Nijverdal, the Canadian war cemetery and information centre in Holten and many sites that relate to Operation Cannonshot, the Canadian crossing of the river IJssel in April 1945, which was a big step towards the liberation of the north of the Netherlands. 

On the following day, we went to Gelderland and visited a historic location as Hotel de Wereld in Wageningen, where the capitulation of the German forces in the Netherlands was signed on 5 May 1945. We also visited Museum de Casteelse Poort before going to Apeldoorn and taking a look at many WWII sites there, including the Memorial centre Apeldoornse Bosch, a Jewish psychiatric institution that was rounded up in 1943: all 1300 patients and staff were sent to Auschwitz and never returned. After a visit to the Loenen Field of Honour, we interviewed the Mayor of Apeldoorn. 

On our last day, we travelled north, to Drenthe. There, we visited the impressive Kamp Westerbork, a transit camp for Dutch Jews, Sinti, Roma, resistance combatants and political adversaries before their transfer to extermination camps. Later on, we rode an amazing Willys Jeep and we visited many key locations of Operation Amherst - the dropping of paratroopers from the 2nd and 3rd regiment SAS on 7 April 1945 - and even some LRE audiospots in the province. 
Europe Remembers on Tour! will be back very soon with more interesting videos. Stay tuned on our social media accounts and don’t miss our visit to Buchenwald, Auschwitz and Mittelbau-Dora concentration camps, along with the city of Krakow. 
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LRE-led promotional campaigns
in the Netherlands, Normandy and in the UK
In the last few months, LRE ran three media campaigns to support museums and remembrance centres in the Netherlands, in Normandy and in the south of England, in the framework of the Europe Remembers campaign.
In the Netherlands, the aim of the campaign ’75 years of freedom after WWII’, in cooperation with Stichting Musea- en Herinneringscentra '40-'45 was to inspire visits to WWII museums and memorial centres. Despite the very difficult times, feedback from the concerned sites was highly positive and a significant number of people visited the campaign website following radio commercials and video posts.
Two sponsored stories in cooperation with Tourisme Normandie, the Juno Beach Centre and the Utah Beach Museum appeared on Libelle.nl and Nouveau.nl, inviting Dutch and Flemish readers to visit remembrance sites in Normandy. A total of 600,000 impressions, 20,000 article views and a high average reading time made the campaign a success, expecting actual returns in terms of visits next year.
In the UK, an out-of-home campaign promoted the D-Day Story in Portsmouth and the IBCC in Lincoln in nearby large towns. Trend reports showed an increase of external awareness based upon online search activity for the D-Day Story and IBCC, both on social media and website visits.
EASTory through their Eyes
A new, EU-funded youth project for LRE
After the successful History through their Eyes project (2017-2019), Liberation Route Europe has successfully applied for another Europe for Citizens grant from the European Commission for the second edition of the project, which was inaugurated with an online kick-off meeting last week.
The project combines a travelling and digital exhibition with youth events. The aim of the project is to foster a deeper understanding of Eastern and Western Europe, two parts of the continent that experienced WWII and its consequences in very different ways - freedom and democracy for the West, authoritarian regimes and ultimately democratic revolutions for the East -, before being united under the European Union flag.
By presenting and discussing personal stories, and possibly by meeting eyewitnesses, students of four European countries will be able to relate to them and compare different experiences of war and of its consequences. EASTory through their Eyes has Liberation Route Europe as coordinator and the German-Russian Museum Berlin-Karlshorst (Germany), the City of Pilsen (Czech Republic), the Bastogne War Museum (Belgium) and the Home Army Museum in Krakow (Poland) as project partners. This international consortium will engage in organising youth events and workshops in the following months, compatibly with the current pandemic. 
A new LRE audiospot in Drenthe
A new LRE audiospot was recently unveiled at the station in Meppel, in the province of Drenthe, the Netherlands.
The plaque on the stone depicts a sad event that took place on April 8, 1945. A freight train with a few passenger wagons containing German leave-goers and slightly wounded soldiers was waiting at the Meppel station for departure to Germany. The Royal Air Force discovered the stationary train and shelled and bombed the long line of wagons. The result was twenty dead, many injured and enormous damage to the station and to the surrounding streets.
“As a strategic and important pivot point in the occupation years, but especially in the last weeks of the liberation, Meppel had to be featured in the Liberation Route Europe”, says initiator Arjan Linthorst, who started this project two years ago together with Wim Sagel (4-5 May Committee Meppel). The official unveiling took place with Mayor Richard Korteland and Ritmeester der Cavalerie, Patric van Aalderen.
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LRE app no longer available
Due to outdated libraries in the technologies used in the app and the upcoming renewal of the Liberation Route Europe’s digital environment, we decided to no longer support the Liberation Route Europe old mobile applications. They have been removed from the Apple and Android stores and are not available for download anymore. A brand new application will be launched in 2021.
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