Small Projects Fund (KPF) 2021-2027
The development and establishment of the “History Trail War Events 1945” was funded as part of the project “Remembering Together – 80 Years of the End of the Second World War 2025” within the framework of the Small Projects Fund (KPF) 2021-2027 of the PRO EUROPA VIADRINA Euroregion as part of the INTERREG VI A Brandenburg-Poland 2021-2027 cooperation programme.

In a German-Polish cooperation led by the City of Seelow and with funding from the Euroregion PRO EUROPA VIADRINA, a cross-border history trail entitled ‘War Events 1945’ has been created, which traces the route taken by the Soviet Army through the Oder-Warta Region towards Berlin in 1945 at six stations, including the Fortress Kostrzyn nad Odra.

The project aims to raise awareness of the shared culture and history and to improve the cross-border usability and accessibility of existing cultural and tourist attractions.

In the project, the educational tourism potential of regional memorials to significant war events in 1945 is networked and marketed nationally and internationally. Partners such as the Liberation Route Europe (certified cultural route of the Council of Europe on the liberation of 1944-45) as well as multilingual print and audio information enable a wide reach of the project results. For example, the cross-border history trail “War Events 1945” will be presented to an international audience of experts and specialised tour operators at the annual forum of the Liberation Route Europe in Krakow (PL).

Commemorative events in spring 2025, to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, will honour the many victims along the history trail.

Project results:

• new German-Polish historical trail on the war events 1945 with 8 stations
• 6 commemorative events marking 80 years since the end of the Second World War
• 7 location flyers: description of the respective historical events of 1945 in 3 language versions (DE/PL/EN)
• 1 flyer box to collect the location flyers (3 language versions)
• Audio files with summaries of the flyer contents (7 locations, 3 language versions)
• 7 acrylic signs (3 languages) with brief information about the location and project (including funding logos), QR code links
• 7 LRE-Vectors of memory to identify the cross-border history trail as part of the Liberation Route Europe
• Event flyer on the planned remembrance events
• 1 roll-up, 3 languages
• Presentation of the project and marketing tools at the LRE’s Annual Congress 2025 in Krakow (PL)

More details: www.remembrance-connects.eu