We Want You(r World War Two Letters)!
Join us in sharing inspiration from letters written during the lead up to the allied victory in the Second World War in May 1945. Video yourself reading an ancestors WW2 letter, then email or Tweet them to us with the hashtag #VictoryLetters

Help us honour our World War 2 veterans on #VEDay75
Tweet us a short video of you reading a letter written by a relative during WW2
Here's @DAlfredsson11 reading from the @RoyalCanNavy war diary of Frank Curry at our "Letters in a Time of War" event @CanWarMuseum @HMCSSACKVILLE1

Thanks to @NicholasCoghlan for sharing this lovely letter written after VE-Day 1945 by his mother in the UK to his father with the Black Watch Reg't in Greece.
Please keep these videos of WW2 letter readings coming to help celebrate #VEDay75 despite COVID-19. #VictoryLetters

Join our #VirtualVEDay commemoration. Share a letter reading like this one from D-Day by the Auriat brothers w/ Canada's North Shore Reg't.
Read by Meriel Bradford. Her father, Brig Gen Beament, helped plan Canada's D-Day landing. Source: @JunoBeachCentre

Jean and Marcel Auriat made their D-Day landing with Canada's North Shore Reg't at St. Aubin-sur-Mer, Normandy on June 6, 1944. Here's a video from the
@JunoBeachCentre
of what that moment was like.
#VirtualVEDay
@War_Letters
#LestWeForget #WeRemember https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=128&v=DV7mK0iT3P8&feature=emb_logo

The Auriat Brother's North Shore Regiment is the focus of this excellent @HistoricaCanada video marking the anniversary of Canada's key role in the D-Day invasion and the liberation of Europe. #VirtualVEDay #LestWeForget #WeRememberRemember #VictoryLetters
@JunoBeachCentre

Today's #VirtualVEDay letter is an eye-witness account of the liberation of the Belsen concentration camp.
As our reader @CharlotteJGray notes: "This shows another side of #VEDay, it was not all an exuberant celebration."
#Belsen75 #LestWeForget
Warning: Graphic descriptions

The letter read by @CharlotteJGray features in her book, "Canada: A Portrait in Letters, 1800 to 2000"
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/70808/canada-a-portrait-in-letters-1800-2000-by-charlotte-gray/9780385658751
@ShonaCook_TO @PenguinRandomCA