#Guided tour - The Netherlands
Freedoms path
9/10/2024
9/20/2024
The 11-day Freedom Trail walking event kicks off the anniversary year marking 80 years of freedom. The Freedom Trail event runs through the provinces of Limburg (Netherlands and Belgium), North Brabant and Gelderland. The route follows the Market Garden Liberation Route; the Airbornepad of Walking Association Olat and joins commemorations and celebrations of 80 years of freedom.
Join the relay and share stories of war and freedom. Adopt one of the stories or share your own. Walking on the Freedom Trail, the scars left by World War II become visible. Affecting different generations and visible in the landscape.
Programme
On 10 September, the trail starts in Leopoldsburg, Belgium, where plans for Operation Market Garden were presented in 1944. The route runs through North Brabant via Belgian Limburg, Eindhoven, Uden and Grave.
On 12 September, an inflow route starts in Dutch Limburg from the German military cemetery in Ysselsteyn to Vlagheide in Schijndel, where Flemish walkers will join. On 13 September, 80 years of freedom in North Brabant will be celebrated at Vlagheide with the site-specific theatre play ‘Behind the Horizon’. At all stages, there will be activities depicting local history and everyone is welcome to participate.
The final stage on 20 September follows the route of John Frost's men from Oosterbeek to the John Frost Bridge in Arnhem. Caroline Frost, John Frost's daughter, will walk the final kilometres. The finish coincides with the commemoration of the Battle of Arnhem and Bridge to Liberation at the ‘Bridge too Far’, with the presence of veterans of World War II and later missions. This evening can be followed live via TV and livestream.
Timmermannsweg 75, 5813 AM Ysselsteyn, Nederland
Organiser: Vrijheidspad