Editing Enschede (section)

=== World War II ===
[[File:Britse soldaten van het Seventh Hampshire Regiment rukken op van Enschede naar H, Bestanddeelnr 900-2374.jpg|thumb|British troops advancing from Enschede, April 1945]]
During [[World War II]], Enschede was one of the first Dutch cities to be captured by German troops due to its proximity to the German border. Resistance members helped many of the Jews from Enschede to hide on farms in the vicinity. Out of approximately 1300 Jews in Enschede, 500 were saved (38.5%), compared to less than 20% in the rest of the Netherlands. This higher survival rate is attributed to three members of the Jewish Council of Enschede, Sig Menko, Gerard Sanders and Isidoor Van Dam who took the initiative, against the advice of the Jewish Council of Amsterdam, of urging their community to go into hiding and not to answer the call-up of the Germans for "labour in the East." Another notable hero of the era was Enschede Pastor Leendert Overduin, who saved hundreds of Jewish children and adults, with help from his sister and others, through a network of safehouses in and around Enschede.{{citation needed|date=March 2022}}

Enschede was bombed on several occasions, most notably on 10 October 1943, and 22 February 1944. During the first raid the [[Enschede Airport Twente|nearby airport]] (then ''Fliegerhorst Twente'') was a target of opportunity for the [[Eighth Air Force|VIII Bomber Command]] during a raid on rail- and waterways in [[Münster]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://paul.rutgers.edu/~mcgrew/wwii/usaf/html/Oct.43.html |title=USAAF Chronology |access-date=2016-05-10 |archive-date=2020-07-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200714053330/http://paul.rutgers.edu/~mcgrew/wwii/usaf/html/Oct.43.html |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.americanairmuseum.com/mission/1509 |title=American Air Museum in Britain, mission 114 |access-date=2016-05-10 |archive-date=2016-06-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160610105249/http://www.americanairmuseum.com/mission/1509 |url-status=live }}</ref> 141 people died and many houses were damaged.{{cn|date=October 2022}} The latter mission named Enschede as a target of opportunity during [[Big Week]] after bombers had been recalled due to adverse weather.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.americanairmuseum.com/mission/790 |title=American Air Museum in Britain, 8th Air Force 230 BIG WEEK – DAY 3 |access-date=2016-05-10 |archive-date=2016-06-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160610110811/http://www.americanairmuseum.com/mission/790 |url-status=live }}</ref>