page_title: Liévin
section_title: During the World Wars
hierarchical_section_title: Liévin / History / During the World Wars
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Vue panoramique de Liévin, Pas-de-Calais, France, prise par moi-même le 9 août 2005 depuis le site Écopôle 11/19 à Loos-en-Gohelle (à droite le terril double du 09/11). Hemmer 10:01, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
context_page_description: Liévin is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in northern France. The inhabitants are called Liévinois.
context_section_description: The First World War brutally ended Liévin's expansion.  The city was ruined, the churches and castles destroyed.  Human losses were 400 civilian and 600 military.  The city of Liévin was awarded the Croix de Guerre in 1920.
  After the war, it was necessary to rebuild everything.  After a few years, Liévin was again an active city, and mining recommenced. In 1936, the nearby (5.6 km) Canadian National Vimy Memorial was dedicated to the Battle of Vimy Ridge (part of the Battle of Arras) and the Canadian forces killed during the First World War; it is also the site of two WWI Canadian cemeteries.
  World War II again stopped the progress of the city.  In 1940, Liévin was evacuated, and the city was settled by Germans.  Resistance was organized, in particular with the help of the Voix du Nord newspaper.  In this war, there were 220 civilian and 225 military casualties.  Liévin was liberated on 2 September 1944 by the British Eighth Army.
  After the war, mining recommenced in force; coal mining was vital to the reconstruction of the French economy.  Silicosis, which would kill many miners, made its appearance.
caption: View of Liévin (left) taken in 2005 from the site Écopôle 11/19 in Loos-en-Gohelle (right).
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