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Old 05-05-2022, 08:09 AM #1
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for first time in 2 years without covid restrictions!

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Today, the Netherlands celebrates Liberation Day for the first time in two years without coronavirus restrictions. Instead of an online program, there will be Liberation Festivals in 14 places in the country. The May 5 concert, the traditional end of Liberation Day, will again happen outside on the Amstel in Amsterdam with an audience and in the presence of the Royal family.

Prime Minister Mark Rutte will attend the May 5 lecture in Oss. Lieutenant Colonel Gijs Tuinman, Knight of the Military Willems-Order, gives the address. After the speech, Rutte will ignite the Liberation Fire in 's-Hertogenbosch, which marks the start of the Liberation Festivals.

This year, several cities will not only celebrate the end of the Second World War but also remember the victims of the war in Ukraine. Maksym Kononenko, the ambassador of Ukraine in the Netherlands, will give a speech during the Liberation Festival in The Hague, and the Ukrainian band Go-A will perform at the Groningen Liberation Festival.

In addition, Ukrainian refugees in Lelystad and Rotterdam, among other places, will join the Dutch Freedom Meal. This is a new part of Liberation Day, in which people can celebrate freedom together with soup. Soup will be available in over 400 places in the country. In Het Gooi, for example, cans of soup are handed out from historic army vehicles, and an old-fashioned soup cart will drive around in Noord-Brabant.

Last year, over 200 performances could be viewed online via a digital program instead of on stages in the 14 cities. The May 5 concert was held inside the Royal Theater Carré in Amsterdam and broadcast live
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and this was yesterday at the May 4th National war remembrance day

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In her speech at the National Commemoration on Dam Square, mayor Femke Halsema said that people's memories of the bombs and violence from World War II are coming back to life now that there is war "on our continent." Thousands of people attended the National Commemoration. The ceremony proceeded without incident.

"Survivors of the Second World War, people who fled from elsewhere from bombs, soldiers who risk their lives for peace and security: with a war on our continent again, many people's memories are coming back. Of torture, oppression, of loved ones dying. The pain that never really w4ent away makes itself felt intensely," said Halsema.

She described an old image that has become current again. "A man bends over a woman who lies lifeless on the street. All around him smoking rubble, emergency services working feverishly, people looking around dazed, and dead bodies under white sheets. These are old photos but images that are all too current."

"Near here, a bomb destroyed the corner of Blauburgwal and Herengracht. And 44 lives. 'It's like the city is moaning,' wrote an Amsterdam woman who heard the air raid siren just before. It was 11 May 1940. A tragic day. Still, the bomb in Amsterdam was only a harbinger. Three days later, Rotterdam was hit by the heaviest bombardment in Dutch history. On that day, the Nazis came closer to their goals: to conquer power in Europe and to commit a genocide that we still can't comprehend. On 14 May 1940, the people of Rotterdam lost hundreds of fellow citizens. A proud city lost its ancient heart. The Netherlands lost its freedom, its democracy, and its rule of law."

"Commemorating together offers comfort. Here, with this symbol of national unity and with the countless memorial stones and monuments in other places in our country," said the Amsterdam mayor. "One of the most impressive war monuments is in Rotterdam for a reason. It is called The Destroyed City. It reminds us of the suffering of a city that - in the words of the artist - just wanted to bloom like a forest. A figure raises its hands to the sky. A big hole in his body screams out. And yet it is also a monument of desire and willpower. It shows us how the Maasstad and the whole of the Netherlands would rise again: modern, free, and reaching for the stars. The survivors built on the memory of the dead," Halsema recalled the statue by sculptor Ossip Zadkine.

"It's like the city is moaning. It resounds - even now - from the past. It resounds from cities not so far away. And it urges us to show willpower. The power to comfort where there is sorrow. To restore what is destroyed. And never to forget those whom we have lost," Halsema concluded her speech
also at various locations during the 2 minutes of silence at 8 PM, victims of the currently ongoing russia-ukraine war are being remembered


https://nltimes.nl/2022/05/05/comfor...emembrance-day

https://nltimes.nl/2022/05/05/nether...beration-today
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tonight also again live the May 5 concert at the Amstel, among VIP guests our King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima


concert line up here includes

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Duncan Laurence (Eurovision 2019 winner) one of this years ambassadors of freedom

Donnie (Rapper, has had various chart hit collabs recently with lots of high profile dutch singers like Rene Froger, Frans Duijts)

Suzan & Freek (singer-songwriter duo, bit like the dutch lady antebellum)

Anita Meyer (huge music name in 80's decade for us, with hits like why tell me why, they don't play our lovesong anymore)

Tania Kross (operatic pop crossover singer, winner of first season of masked singer nl as robot)

Wasim Arslan (arabic language singer)

Merijn van Haren (frontman of rockband Navarone, a runners up of The Voice of Holland)

Eric Corton (producer, radio dj and one of May 5 organizing comittee) will hold a speech

Fresku (Rapper, Actor, Stand Up Comedian)
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pretty sure Tania will do ''we'll meet again'' at the end of the show
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