{"id":5736,"date":"2024-09-12T22:39:15","date_gmt":"2024-09-12T22:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bunkermuseumantwerpen.be\/?p=5736"},"modified":"2024-09-14T19:04:19","modified_gmt":"2024-09-14T19:04:19","slug":"overzicht-bevrijdingsdagen-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bunkermuseumantwerpen.be\/en\/overzicht-bevrijdingsdagen-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Overview Liberation Days 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Also the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Antwerp drew large crowds to the city. <\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Here we offer an overview of some of the things that took place, before and during the weekend, about WWII in the city.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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A few days before the big weekend 2 news books were presented.<\/strong><\/p>

On Thursday 5 September, 2 new books were presented in the city hall, \u201cCity in resistance\u201d and \u201cAntwerp under the V-bombs 1944-1945\u201d. The latter is a new version of the book that Koen Palinckx wrote 20 years ago for the then founded non-profit organisation \"Commemoration of the 1st V-bomb Antwerp\". Board member Filip Heylen indicated at the presentation that he too was not aware of certain aspects of the V-weapon story for a long time, such as the Dora concentration camp and the Mittelwerk factory. Even before the first rocket landed, many Antwerp residents were already suffering in this hell, built for the production of weapons that would ultimately also attack their own families and city.\u00a0
On the occasion of the anniversary of the non-profit organization, a new version of the book was published, supplemented with what the author has discovered in the last 20 years with his passionate research.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

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Filip Heylen, board member of the NPO \"Commemoration of the 1st V-bomb Antwerp\", talked about how years ago he himself was living proof that remembrance was necessary.<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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I<\/span><\/em>nterest in the book?<\/span>\u00a0<\/i><\/p>

We are considering getting a stock for our museum bookshop and, depending on the pre-order success, also organizing a signing session in the museum. Are you interested and would you like to\u00a0<\/i>also support our NPO with your purchase (\u20ac19,95)?<\/i><\/p>

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O<\/strong>n Friday there was a commemoration in the City Park at the monument for the fallen of the Line Regiments and the Fortress Regiment.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>

Also present were soldiers from the Liberation Battalion, tradition bearers from the Piron Brigade and the 5th Line Regiment. Due to the historical ties of this last unit with the city, the Liberation Battalion also carries the Antwerp castle Steen in its cap badge. As can be seen in the photo, the Antwerp city drummers were also present at the ceremony.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Saturday began with the ceremony commemorating the first V-bomb on Schilderstraat.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>

At the monument near the locationt where the first V2 fell on the city on Friday 13 October 1944, the NPO \"Herdenking 1e V-bom Antwerpen\" and the city organised another commemoration at 10:00. Among the foreign guests was also the mayor of Nordhausen in Germany, where the Dora camp and the Mittelwerk factory were located. On the wreath he placed for the city of Nordhausen and KZ-Gedenkplaats Mittelbau-Dora, the following was written in German:\u00a0<\/p>

\"Honorable memory of the victims of the German attacks on the city of Antwerp\u201d<\/span><\/i>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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The exhibition in Steenbergstraat also started at 10am and attracted many visitors.<\/strong><\/p>

In this \u201cAntwerp under the V-bombs\u201d exhibition,<\/span>\u00a0in addition to the liberation itself, special attention was paid to the period afterward, from the battle in the harbor and the Albert Canal to the V1 and V2 terror that hung over the city for almost 6 months. This very commendable private initiative, also perfectly located between all the other activities, could be visitedthe whole weekend individualy or under the guidance of Erik Bogaert. With him one could make a deep dive into the history of what Antwerp still had to endure after the liberation.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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