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Post by pjotr on May 4, 2019 20:15:03 GMT 1
Remembrance of the Dead Remembrance of the Dead (Dutch: Dodenherdenking) is held annually on May 4 in the Netherlands. It commemorates all civilians and members of the armed forces of the Kingdom of the Netherlands who have died in wars or peacekeeping missions since the beginning of the Second World War.
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Post by pjotr on May 4, 2019 20:15:39 GMT 1
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Post by pjotr on May 4, 2022 19:01:56 GMT 1
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Post by pjotr on May 4, 2022 19:06:13 GMT 1
Dutch anthemWilliam of Nassau am I, of German* descent;
True to the fatherland I remain until death.
Prince of Orange am I, free and fearless.
To the King of Spain I have always given honour.
You, my God and Lord, are my shield, on You I rely.
On You I will build; never leave me,
So that I may remain pious, your servant at all moments,
Dispelling the tyranny that wounds my heart.(*He was born in Dillenburg castle, in the then County of Nassau-Dillenburg, in the Holy Roman Empire, now in Hesse, Germany. So "of German descent" is technically correct Futhermore at the time it was written 'German' ('Duitsen') may be more appropriately translated as ' Germanic', which one could also argue as ' Dutch' when translated in a modern context) source: www.lyricsondemand.com/n/nationalanthemlyrics/netherlandsnationalanthemlyrics.html
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Post by pjotr on May 4, 2022 19:56:43 GMT 1
Fire of Freedom
The eternal Freedom Fire burns in Wageningen, City of Liberation. The Fire of Freedom is the symbol for living in peace and freedom. Every year on May 4 at midnight, the fire is received in order to be able to ignite the Freedom Fire on May 5 in the rest of the Netherlands.
In 2020 everything was different; we lived in a time where we felt what limitation of freedom is. We had an invisible face. Not comparable to wartime but, it was indeed.
That is why we handed over the Freedom Fire to fire bearers that year on May 4 at 21.00. These were individuals who carry with them a story of the impact of war. These fire bearers collect the fire to the cities where Liberation Festivals normally take place on May 5. Together with this fire, the Freedom Fire was ignited throughout the Netherlands at midnight.
We commemorated 75 years of freedom in 2022. We marked this moment by lighting the fire. For them, all offers, with the realization that our freedom is not self-evident.
Firebearers of the Liberation Festivals in 2020
Liberation Festival Zeeland in Vlissingen by Stef Traas (35)
Liberation Festival Groningen by Maureen de Witte (19)
Liberation Festival Fryslân in Leeuwarden by Ronald Nooter (60)
Liberation Festival Drenthe in Assen by Alfred Kool (64)
Liberation Festival Limburg in Roermond by Rachel Schepers (50)
Liberation doll in Haarlem by Dieuwertje Blok (62)
Liberation Festival South Holland in Rotterdam by Cheryl Bartelings (59)
Liberation Festival The Hague by Mostafa Hilali (46)
Liberation Festival Flevoland in Almere by Hakim Radwan (12)
Amsterdam Liberation Festival by Frank van der Lende (31)
Liberation Festival Overijssel in Zwolle by Brita Röhl (63)
Liberation Festival Brabant in Den Bosch by Wadec Salewicz (74)
Liberation Festival Utrecht by Maayke Botman (51)
Liberation Festival Gelderland in Wageningen by Lavinia Meijer (37)
In this evening the eternal Freedom Fire will be light again in Wageningen.
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Post by pjotr on May 4, 2022 20:09:32 GMT 1
The Second World War left scars in old people who survived Gestapo or SD prisons, Concentrationcamps, the execution of their parents. Such old Dutch people today said on national tv that the things that are happening in Ukraine and the images they see brings back the Second World War back to them. Fear, anxiety, bad sleeping and old images that hounted them came back, because some of the terrible images they saw of suffering women, children, elderly or abused or dead soldiers reminded them of their time from 1940-1945 in the Netherlands, but also abroad as slave workers in Germany that suffered under bad treatment and allied bombings in Germany, people that were in German/Austrian Nazi concentration camps in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Poland or the Czech Republic.
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Post by jeanne on May 29, 2022 0:54:38 GMT 1
The Second World War left scars in old people who survived Gestapo or SD prisons, Concentrationcamps, the execution of their parents. Such old Dutch people today said on national tv that the things that are happening in Ukraine and the images they see brings back the Second World War back to them. Fear, anxiety, bad sleeping and old images that hounted them came back, because some of the terrible images they saw of suffering women, children, elderly or abused or dead soldiers reminded them of their time from 1940-1945 in the Netherlands, but also abroad as slave workers in Germany that suffered under bad treatment and allied bombings in Germany, people that were in German/Austrian Nazi concentration camps in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Poland or the Czech Republic. Pieter, Yes, I can imagine that this is very difficult for those who experienced World War II. The images I see of things happening in Ukraine horrify me and remind me of many images I have seen of WWII! I wasn't even alive then, but just seeing those past images affects me deeply, as the current images coming from Ukraine do now... What many people have feared since 1945 has come true: that the time would come when we would see that humankind has not learned the bitter lesson of the past! |
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