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Starting grant for investigation of forgotten landscapes of World War II
PhD candidate Wouter Verschoof-van der Vaart has received the Stichting Elise Mathilde Fonds grant from the Leids Universiteits Fonds (LUF) to work on a research project focusing on the landscapes of the Second World War. ‘We will combine citizen science with deep learning to uncover traces of the conflict.’
Scars of War
The central part of the Netherlands has been the theater of many military events during the Second World War. ‘From the German invasion to Operation Market Garden, these conflicts have scarred the landscape,’ Verschoof-van der Vaart explains. ‘Many of these traces are undocumented and more or less forgotten, like trenches, bomb craters, and munition depots.’