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In 1940, the population of Terezín was ejected and the garrison town turned into a Jewish ghetto and transit camp. From ...
Czech Republic
The French war cemetery in Venafro, Italy, contains the graves of 3,414 French soldiers who fell during the Second World...
Italy
From 4 September to 8 November 1944, the Battle of the Scheldt took place in Zeeland and Flanders. The aim was to retake...
The Netherlands
The La Cambe military cemetery is located only a few kilometres from Omaha Beach on the French Atlantic coast. On 6 Ju...
France
The Shoah Memorial in Paris city centre can be found in the district of Le Marais, where a large Jewish population lived...
This is one of several statues in Luxembourg city. It was inaugurated on 29 April 1990 in the presence of Grand Duke Jea...
Luxembourg
It was Saturday morning, 1 May 1943. Tail gunner Stanley McClellan glanced at his watch and checked the time: the moment...
The Commonwealth Cemetery 3km from Syracuse houses over 1000 victims of the first days of the Sicily landings. ...
In May 1944, the British 50th Infantry Division landed here at Hayling Island beach front as part of Exercise Fabius I...
United Kingdom
The first Allied soldiers entering Zeeland on September 16, 1944, were Polish and part of the First Canadian Army. They ...
Deeply frustrated by their captivity, 152 men and women are known to have escaped from Jersey during the German Occupa...
Jersey
During the Sicily landings, the headquarters of the command of the VI Italian Army and the FF.AA (Armed Forces) of Sic...
Military airfield 504 in Santo Pietro di Caltagirone was used during the Second World War for attacks against Briti...
Gdynia War Museum displays the collection of collector Mario Maas. At the age of six, he started collecting items from W...
The Hollandsche Schouwburg in Amsterdam is a former theatre used as a deportation centre by the Nazis during the Second ...
The Cheval Blanc crossroads is a strategic point south of Mons. It is the crossroads of two essential roads for the bell...
Belgium
Liberation was celebrated extensively in the streets of the western river area. At least, by the inhabitants who could c...
The impressive ‘Maulusmühle’ monument for three Belgian and three British SRA flyers is dedicated to the honour and reme...
The Luxembourg-American Cemetery at Hamm is doubtlessly one of the most visited sites in the Grand-Duchy. It is the fina...
The EUR district, south of Rome, is one of the biggest examples of fascist urban planning and architecture in Italy. Mus...
One year after the liberation, the Polish liberators arrived in Breda again, this time not with a British Sherman tank, ...
Located near the Dutch border in Horbach, a district of Aachen, are tank traps that were once part of the Westwall. Co...
Germany
Four members of the same family, the Kremer Family, were active as Resistance fighters. They acted mainly as ‘Passeurs' ...
The monument was erected in Porretta Terme in 1946 in honour of Antonio Giuriolo and the fallen partisans. Giuriolo was ...
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