Explore the critical events related to the war and the personal stories of those who lived through that challenging time.
On 13 September 1944, the British liberated Mol. Nearby, every crossing on the Kempen Canal Bocholt-Herentals was fought...
#Story
Merksplas was the scene of heavy fighting during the last days of September 1944. On 29 September, British troops delive...
On the night of 14-15 February 1943, German guns brought down a Royal Air Force bomber over Meerhout. The HE164, a Vicke...
On the night of 3 to 4 October, the shelling lasted almost 10 hours. Dozens of civilians did not survive the bombing. It...
The battle erupted in full force. For a fortnight, both camps shot back and forth. Kalmthout was heavily bombed. Many ho...
House to house, body to body. On 25 September 1944 Canadian liberators crossed the Dessel-Turnhout-Schoten canal near Ri...
On October third 1944, Allied troops took Brasschaat. After liberation, a gruesome discovery was made at the Maria-ter-H...
The liberators were coming. On 4 September, British tanks rushed towards Boom. Their mission: to liberate Antwerp and th...
Brickworks battlesOn 24 September, the battle erupted. With the help of local resistance fighters, the 49th Infantry Div...
On 24 September, troops of the British 53rd (Welsh) Infantry Division advanced from Postel, across the northern canal ba...
The sparsely built-up area around Kasterlee was home to a lot of German anti-aircraft artillery during World War II. The...
The end of the war was already in sight in Heist-op-den-Berg in August 1944. On 29 August, the women and children of the...
Antwerp had been liberated, but the Germans were entrenched behind the Albert Canal. The Command of the British 50th Nor...
On 14 September 1944, the 15th Scottish Infantry Division managed to cross the Bocholt-Herentals Canal and form a small ...
On March 6 1945, at around 10 pm, a German flying bomb struck Heuvelplein. The projectile came down on the corner of Nie...
In September 1944, projectiles from Germans and British crossed each other for days over the Kempisch Kanaal at Mol-Donk...
During World War II, the Nazis used the Dossin Barracks as an assembly camp for nearly 26,000 Jews, Roma and Sinti. Plan...
In the final months before liberation, several aircraft crashed near Gierle. On 9 May 1944, a US B-24 bomber crashed at ...
From 3 September 1944, the Germans began the retreat. They claimed everything with wheels, from bicycles to farm carts. ...
The last German surge was in December 1944, when the Allies had advanced to the Belgian Ardennes and were completely sur...
Following the invasion of the U.S.S.R. and the entry into the war of the U.S.A. on the British side, German strategy in ...
Fought between the iconic landings on 6 June 1944 and the liberation of Paris on 25 August, the Battle of Normandy is of...
From 1943 to 1945, the 82nd U.S. Airborne Division was deployed in all of the important operations in western Europe. It...
#Biography
6 June 1944 entered history under the now legendary name of D-Day, the Allied landings on the beaches of Normandy. It wa...