On the first day, participants gathered at the central station in the Dutch city of Eindhoven, from where they traveled to the Liberation Garden Museum in Leopoldsburg, Belgium. At this new museum, participants had time to explore the exhibition and to better understand the “Garden” part (ground operation) of Operation Market Garden. After the museum visit, they went to the Belgian and Commonwealth war graves nearby.
After their first night in the Youth Hostel in Eindhoven, participants traveled by coach to National Monument Kamp Vught. In the permanent exhibition “Camp Vught: seven seasons and 32,000 stories,” visitors explored the history of the camp through personal stories and objects relating to people from up to 36 different nationalities. Special attention was paid to the roles people were forced, or not, to assume: that of victim, perpetrator, bystander, and helper. Participants had enough time to conduct their research: podcast and video creation as well as history writing. In the afternoon, they traveled back to the same hostel as the previous night.
