Specials
- Article by Auke de Vlieger
- Published on January 29th, 2017
Battle for Stalingrad
- Article by Frank van der Drift
- Published on January 19th, 2025
Prinses Irene Brigade
- Article by Kevin Prenger
- Published on November 15th, 2022
Wannsee Conference
- Article by Jan-Jaap van den Berg
- Published on September 9th, 2023
To Besiege a City
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20Dec
Christmas and New Year message from our volunteers
The TracesOfWar team wishes you a merry Christmas and a prosperous 2025!
26Nov
New book: Righteous Behind Barbed Wire
Righteous behind Barbed Wire is the latest book written by TracesOfWar volunteer Kevin Prenger. It was published in November 2024 and is available through Amazon and others.
2Nov
Postal artifacts provide a vibrant testament to the experiences of the Dutch people during WWII
On Saturday, Nov. 9, the Arnhem Open Air Museum will present the exhibition ‘The Battle of Arnhem - September 17-25, 1944: False Hope and Lasting Thanks’ by the Arnhem Postal History Project. This exhibition, curated by Tim Gale and Kees Adema, is based on an extensive collection from World War II. We asked Tim Gale some questions by e-mail about the collection and the exhibition.
What is The Arnhem Postal History Collection and Digital Archives (APH) and what’s your connection to it?
12Oct
DigitalBattlefieldTours unlocks military tactics to a wide audience
[TRANSLATED BY: Simon van der Meulen] Ivo van der Spoel is the creator of documentaries covering the military history of World War II. His YouTube channel is called DigitalBattlefieldTours. In his videos, viewers are taken to locations where actual battlefield events took place, such as Operation Market Garden. Having 65,000 subscribers and attracting up to a million viewers per video, he caters for a broad public. TracesofWar.com interviewed him through e-mail to find out more about his channel and what motivates him.
11Oct
Lily Ebert, Holocaust Survivor, Author and TikTok Star, Dies at 100
She survived Auschwitz, wrote a best-selling memoir, “Lily’s Promise,” and spoke to a following of 2 million fans on TikTok.
She was born Lívia Engelman into an Orthodox Jewish family in Bonyhád, Hungary, on December 29 1923, one of six children of Ahron, who sold textiles, and Nina, née Bresnitz. It was an idyllic childhood, she said, though her father died when she was 18.
4Oct
Commemoration 7th Battalion the Hampshire regiment
After the Battle of Arnhem was lost on September 1944, the battle south of the Rhine on 'The Island' continued. There are several monuments to the British and American units that suffered major losses. The commemoration for the 7th battalion of the Hampshire Regiment was on October 4 2024.
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