On May 4, people who died during wars are traditionally commemorated, a day later, on May 5, we celebrate our liberation. Omroep Brabant will pay extensive attention to this in the coming period. We do this by broadcasting live commemorations and liberation meetings. We also broadcast documentaries with stories about the Second World War that need to be (re)told. Below you will find an overview.
Documentary: the brutal murder of Edo and Lexje Hornemann
Sunday May 1 – 11:30 am and Wednesday May 4 – 4:55 pm (repeat).
On April 20, 1945, the lives of Edo and Lexje Hornemann from Eindhoven and eighteen other Jewish children come to an end. Traces of medical experiments are thus erased. Edo was twelve and Lexje eight years old.
In the documentary, students make the same last journey that the Hornemann brothers made at the time, from Eindhoven to Hamburg. Journalist Lout Donders made the report about the horrors of the war. Stories that need to be told.
Camp Vught Remembrance Day
Wednesday 4 May – 6.15 pm.
During a special commemorative broadcast, National Monument Camp Vught commemorates 4 May. During the Second World War, more than 32,000 people (resistance fighters, hostages and Jewish civilians) were imprisoned for a short or longer period of time in the then concentration camp on Vughtse Heide.
The memory of these people is kept alive on the basis of personal stories.
National commemoration on Dam Square
Wednesday, May 4 – 8 p.m.
Live report of the National Remembrance Day on Dam Square in Amsterdam, where two minutes of silence will be held at 8 p.m.
Documentary: Kamp Haaren, between fear and freedom
Thursday 5 May – 9.20 am and 12.55 pm (repeat).
The documentary tells the story of Haaren hostage camp. During the German occupation, the major seminary at Haaren was used as a hostage camp and Polizeigefängnis used. Among others were resistance fighters, agents of the infamous Englandspiel and Jewish civilians.
Haaren was a camp of life-size contrasts: while hostages sat in the sun, Jewish prisoners boarded trucks that drove to Westerbork. How do the events still play a role in the lives of survivor(s) and next of kin?
Start Celebration of the Liberation, freedom in solidarity
Thursday 5 May – 10.20 am (repeats in the afternoon and evening).
A sparkling and varied program where we reflect on freedom and celebrate our freedom, live from De Lievekamp in Oss. With various performances, including by Lenny Kuhr. The question “What does freedom in connection mean to you?” is central to the entire program.
May 5 lecture
Thursday 5 May – 11.45 am
Gijs Tuinman, bearer of the military Order of William, will give the 5 May lecture in theater De Lievekamp in Oss. Prime Minister Mark Rutte and Wim van de Donk, chairman of the National Committee for 4 and 5 May, will be present.