The 7th international Annual Netherlands Liberation Day Challenge is ended.

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We zijn trots en blij om onze 7de  jaarlijkse Liberation Day Challenge aan te kondigen, die gehouden zal worden van 4 mei 20.02 uur tot 10 mei 20.02 uur Nederlandse tijd, georganiseerd door het Netherlands Project. Je kunt je nu inschrijven. Wil je meedoen plaats dan een antwoord hier onder dit bericht.

Onze challenge pagina met (later nog meer) info is HIER te vinden.

We houden altijd alle details van de challenge geheim tot aan de start om het zo eerlijk mogelijk te houden voor iedereen. Maar een tipje van de sluiter zullen we nu al oplichten:

We willen dit jaar de nationale en internationale leden van de strijdkrachten herdenken die omgekomen zijn in Nederland tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog en hier in Nederland begraven zijn en hen eren door ze een mooi profiel te geven en een stamboom.

Hoe en waar je die kan vinden hoor je kort voor de start.

Wij hebben er zin!

Colleen, Astrid en Eef.

We are proud and happy to announce our 7th annual Liberation Day Challenge, which will be held from May 4, 8:02 pm to May 10, 8:02 pm Central European Summer Time (CEST - convertor on our Liberation Day Challenge page), organized by the Netherlands Project.

Registering is now open. If you would like to join us, please post an answer below this post.

Our challenge page with (later more) info can be found HERE.

We always keep all the details of the challenge secret until the start just to keep it as fair as possible for everyone. But we will already lift a tip of the veil:

This year we want to commemorate the national and international members of the armed forces who died in the Netherlands during World War II and are buried here in the Netherlands and honor them by giving them a nice profile and a family tree.

You will hear shortly before the start how and where you can find it.

We are excited!

Colleen, Astrid and Eef

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Hello everyone!

In 10 hours from now the challenge will start. Do not forget to use the tracker!!

We will open a free space page with resources and links to the graves in 6 hours so you all have time to do some research and ask questions. The  link to the page will be posted at the G2G-chat, Discord and on the Challenge Page.

Please post here at G2G on what profile you work so there will be no edit conflicts during the challenge.

During the challenge we communicate here and at Discord in the Netherlands-Annual-Liberation-Day-Challenge -Channel.

Let s make some great profiles for those that should never been forgotten!

Enjoy!

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Yeh!! 16.00 hour in The Netherlands.

HERE

you find the search engines and resources for the 7th Liberation Day Challenge.

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The Dutch participants are in front at this moment. No wonder as the rest of this planet is asleep. So no worries!

Just start up your machine, as The Netherlands are now almost at midnight and the Dutch participants are ready for bed.

Just do not forget to hit the tracker bar every time you add info with a source. So not only for creating one profile but for every source you add. Make sure you choose at the list on the right side what you added.

I saw already some great profiles created.

Thank you for making those that gave all for our freedom and getting such great profiles!

I love the quote, I think Coen added it to the scratch page:

"All Gave Some, Some Gave All, We will remember them all"

I also came across the "CRASH Luchtoorlog- en Verzetmuseum website" (Air war- and resistance museum) close to our home with their motto:

 "Learning not to forget and not forgetting to learn"

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How are you all doing?

I see really wonderful profiles created. 

Chapeau!! (Dutch way to say (with a French word) well done! )

Did you check the scores? Our Eef just passed Elsa tonight! Well she is excluded for the sticker of honor anyway as she had foreknowledge of this challenge, as all coordinators. So do not worry.

Hope you all feel good by making those poor ones a nice profile, as they deserve to be honored and should never been forgotten.

These profiles you make show that people, often very young people, had tremendous courage for justice. And they even gave their lives for it. It makes us aware of the fact that if they hadn't been there.....

Freedom is not self-evident

The stories that we encouter are heartbraking and make us all aware what they sacrificed for us.

Thank  you all for making such great profiles.

Let's roll!

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Ladies and Gentlemen,

The time is up! The challenge is closed. We are proud we had so many signing up with us. We saw beautiful profiles created for the Military that died during WW-II and are buried in The Netherlands.

I hope you all felt that it is just great to give those heroes a nice profile, as a little thank you, for they paid the highest price for our freedom. Thank you all for that and we hope we meet again soon or next year on the 4th of May.

In a few hours we will announce the winner.

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YEH!! We have a Winner!!!!

The winner of the Annual Dutch Liberation Day Challenge 2022

 is:

The one with the most profiles created of military that are buried in The Netherlands is:

ELSA VAN DER VELDEN!!!!

Congratulations Elsa! After a hard start you managed to create the most profiles to honor and to commemorate those heroes and also the most profiles of all! On the edge you run over Eef!

As we also like to encourage participants to make beautiful and complete challenge profiles.

And it is a pleasure to announce that

JOAN HOLLANDER!!!!

is the winner of the most beautiful profile(s). All profiles she created contain multiple images but also several stickers.

But most important is, she had 8 Military profiles created in a special way. Besides these men died and are buried in her birth town they belonged together as crew members of a shot airplane. They all have a profile now and are linked together.

Congratulations Joan!

You brought the crew together and added 8 beautiful profiles to WT.

Thank you all again for your participation and make WT a better and more beautiful tree!

We hope to see you all back soon.

Colleen, Astrid and Eef

4 en 5 mei Vrijheid vier je samen.

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Thank you so much for your kind words Astrid.

It was again an honour to participate in this challenge and to work on these profiles. It gave me some additional local history lessons, things I didn't knew before. And it was wonderful to see these profiles "come alive" with each piece of information I found (with the help of dear Jan and others). And I'm not even done yet, there is more to add to a few of them.

Answer 1

I will see what I can do

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Hi Kathy,

Happy to have you.

I will add you to our participation list!

Answer 2

I'm going to work on Peter Cornelis van Kuppenveld who died during the battle around the Grebbeberg in 1940

Answer 3

I'm working on Jacobus Groenewoud, who died 18 September 1944.

Answer 4

I will start with Johannes Cornelis Buijtelaar, born 28-05-1915 in Den Haag. Member of the Prinses Irene Brigade.

Died 1944 in Tilburg.

Answer 5

Ik start met reserve kapitein, Johan Andries Pieter van Dijk geboren in Arnhem 1 oktober 1899. 

Profiel > [[Van_Dijk-2331|Johan Andries Pieter van Dijk (1899-1940)]]

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Helemaal goed Joop!

Maak er wat moois van. Ook hij verdiend het.

Way to go Joop!

Make something great out of it. He deserves it too.

Kisses,

A.

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Your link is not working right. I think you mean

Johan Andries Pieter van Dijk? Born Arnhem 01-10-1899? Right eh? Died 17-05-1940.

What a mess it was those days in May...............

Make him a great profile Joop!

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Ja, ja, het was het laat Astrid, had het ff afgeraffeld.. ouwe mannetje moest naar bed.  Met dank voor voor het in werking stellen van de link, ik zal je in mijn testament bedenken....

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Dank Joop!

Answer 6

I'm working on the men from Michigan who were a part of the 101st Airborne and the 82nd Airborne. The list isn't too long.

Answer 7

Have to admit I have been cheating a bit by already creating the profile of Aernout (Nout) Bergmann last January when preparing the idea of this year's challenge.

Will expand it and link it to Gerben Bootsma's story who paid with his life for letting Aernout's colleague Gerbrands escape.

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Nice Jan. I think I read one of the crew survived the crash, right?

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Aernout was the only one that did not survive. The seven members of the crew were all prisoners of war.

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Right. I remember again.

Answer 8

I don’t know whether it is too late to sign up, but wanted to thank you and let you know I am joining in anyway.

Maddy

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Thank you so much for joining, Maddy!

I added you to the list of participants. Remembering your tremendous contributions to one of last year's challenges by creating numerous profiles of Holocaust victims I am sure you will do marvelous things in this challenge too!

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Welcome Maddy!

Answer 9

I haven't registered because I did not think my kids would let me sit by the computer. But I looked at the resources and saw the list of Polish sacrifices, I feel pulled to them, got Polish roots. Can I add them for you guys without being registered, or can you simply register me late? Or is someone already working those lists?

I am unsure if trees can be added because of privacy and Polish records are not as likely to be found online as Dutch ones. Is it okay to add them solo, I think they have to be added even if they cannot be connected for a while, because they should be remembered, and besides, maybe they will attract some more Polish researchers to WT?

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You are so welcome Antonia! I register you.

There are so many Polish casualties buried here in The Netherlands. I wonder how that comes. I did not research that yet.

So please join and have fun! Do not forget to use the tracker!!

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A big polish unit was a part of Market-Garden and tried to free the troups closed in in villa Hartenstein. It didn't succeed and a lot of them fell around Driel and while trying to cross the river Rhine north of Driel.

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Ai! Thank you Eef.

But I saw also many of them buried in Amsterdam.

Answer 10

Is it too late to register? If not I would love to

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Hi Maree!

No it is never to late to join.

Happy you like to join us. There are so many fallen soldiers in the Netherlands to honor and make sure they will not be forgotten. So please jump in.

My pleasure to add you to the participant list.

Here is our page with useful links and do not forget to use the tracker.

Enjoy!