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New Belgian museum to honour Polish WWII soldiers

PR dla Zagranicy
Victoria Bieniek 26.07.2018 13:24
Polish WWII soldiers are to be commemorated in an interactive museum which is to be set up in the northeastern Belgian town of Leopoldsburg.

The Liberation Garden museum is to pay special attention to the role Polish fighters played in liberating Belgian and Dutch cities from Nazi German occupation.

Poland’s Ambassador to Belgium Artur Orzechowski told Polish Radio that 27 Polish soldiers from Polish General Stanisław Maczek’s tank division, which was instrumental in the Allied liberation of a number of Belgian towns, were buried in Leopoldsburg.

The city is also the site of the start of Operation Market Garden, one of the largest airborne campaigns of World War II, which saw Polish soldiers fight alongside British, Dutch, US and Canadian forces.

The museum in Leopoldsburg is to focus particularly on Market Garden.

(vb/pk)

Source: IAR

tags: WWII
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