The ILPE Association at the Banyuls-sur-Mer symposium

The ITINÉRAIRES LIBERTÉ-PYRÉNÉES-EUROPE association at the Banyuls-sur-Mer symposium (October 2024) On October 17 and 18, 2024, a major symposium was held in Banyuls-sur-Mer (Pyrénées-Orientales). The theme: "Les Passeurs et les évadés durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale" (Smugglers and escapees during the Second World War). A total of 16 contributors helped renew the history and historiography of escape networks to Spain, and the diplomatic stakes involved. The event was well attended, with 245 participants. In addition to the lectures, school workshops were organized around the [...]

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13th annual Council of Europe Cultural Routes Forum

In Visegrad-Hungary in September 2024 " In Visegrad-Hungary in September 2024, the 13th annual forum of the Council of Europe's cultural routes was held. Professor Robert Belot, President of the scientific committee of the association Itinéraires Liberté Pyrénées Europe, presented the application for certification of the 12 escape routes over the Pyrenees to Spain and Portugal between 1940 and 1944.

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Escape from Eysses prison

Denis BRUHL is the son of Robert BRUHL, who escaped to England in January 1944. Denis has gathered numerous documents and testimonies to understand how this escape took place. He has managed to track down some of the families who courageously sheltered the escapees in Cancon, Lougratte, Montaut, Saint Maurice-de-l'Estapelle, Montflanquin, Fourcès, Sos, Mazère-de-Neste, cantine du Rioumajou (Hautes Pyrénées) © Denis BRUHL

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The partisans' song was born on the Col de Banyuls

Famous writers such as Maurice Druon and Joseph Kessel have said that it was at the Col de Banyuls, on leaving France, that the partisans' song was born. For 11 sites, panels with commentary and illustrated with period photographs will complete the information for hikers taking these "paths". They pay tribute to the courage of the local population, who helped those fleeing the occupying forces (resistance fighters, Jews, young STO draft dodgers joining the Free French troops in Algiers...) to cross over to Spain. Among them were writers [...]

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Testimonies from deportees

The documentary film aims to pay tribute to the men, women and children who climbed them by the hundreds of thousands, through an aesthetic and poetic narrative that is above all memorial and educational, with the aim of denouncing the hatred that produced this suffering and passing on to younger generations the responsibility of ensuring that it does not happen again.

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80 years of the Liberation
Historical re-enactment

SATURDAY August 24 at the airfield 9:30am: Members welcome in Salle Sévigné for CFP Museum AGM10:30am: CFP/49 RI AGM 12:30pm: Verre de l'amitié - Meal on camp for AGM participants14:30pm: Ceremonies at Magnoac steles (Campuzan, Vieuzos, Monléon, Monlong and Chélan bridge)6:00 pm: From Chélan, movement to Château de Pernet for presentation of PC Céroni, then memorial march to Place Soulés in Castelnau7:00 pm: Reception of members for the [...]

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Memorial and sports walk from July 11 to 14, 2024

Every summer for the past 30 years, the association "Le chemin de la Liberté" de Saint-Girons en hashtag#Couserans has organized a four-day memorial and sporting hashtag#randonnée along one of the most difficult escape routes of the 39-45 war through the central Pyrenees to northern Spain, between Saint-Girons and Esterri d'Aneu. It was the route most frequently used by smugglers, as the complexity and vastness of the terrain made it difficult for the occupying forces to monitor. A [...]

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Application to the European Institute of Cultural Routes

Another step towards the submission of our application to the European Institute of Cultural Routes, Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe Programme Professor Robert Belot of the Université Jean Monnet Saint-Etienne, who co-chairs our scientific committee, discovered the Chemin de la Liberté at hashtag#Marignac, the historic station at hashtag#Saléchan, and took part in a working session on the preparation of our application. Professor Robert Belot of the Université Jean Monnet [...]

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