You recognize it; Someone in your area experienced the liberation of the Netherlands in 1945. A grandfather, grandmother, a neighbor or other known one. Our province still has more than 30,000 inhabitants who were alive when the occupation was terminated by Germany, according to figures from the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS).
Of those people, a large part was 5 years or younger in 1945. Whether they really consciously experienced the liberation can not be said with certainty with each of them.
Most people over 80 in our province, and so were born when the Netherlands was liberated, live in Westerveld and Noordenveld. It concerns at least 8 percent of the residents in those municipalities.
Throughout the Netherlands there are 932,000 people who have experienced the liberation. This is more than 5 percent of the current population. Of them there were 423 thousand when 5 years or older, old enough to possibly remember the liberation consciously
In 2045, 100 years after the Second World War, there are expected to be nearly 7,000 people over 100 who were already born during the liberation, the CBS estimates.