Etiket: commemoration
The battle against the water is never finished, says Ina Adema at the commemoration
At the commemoration of the flood disaster of 1953 in Halsteren, Ina Adema, Commissioner of the King of North Brabant, warned that attention to water and safety should never slacken.…
Hannie Schaft commemoration new style: “Translating to young people”
The commemoration of resistance heroine Hannie Schaft will traditionally be rounded off tomorrow with a flower laying at the monument ‘Woman in the Resistance’ in the Kenaupark. But at the…
A commemoration ceremony was held for the Great Leader Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in Anıtkabir.
The ceremony in Anıtkabir started at 08.50 with the march of the state officials from the Lion Road. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan chaired the cortege,…
First Alkmaar commemoration Kristallnacht: Students honor resistance heroine Truus
In Alkmaar, the Kristallnacht and the subsequent children’s transports by Truus Wijsmuller were commemorated for the first time. This was done by students who laid flowers at the statue of…
Liberation commemoration in the context of the war now, but without Russians
At the commemoration of the liberation in Bergen op Zoom, the war in Ukraine dominated on Sunday. The Russian representatives stayed away and that was not really a surprise. Instead…
Albrecht Weinberg (95), Holocaust survivor, chief guest at Kristallnacht commemoration in Groningen
The Kristallnacht is commemorated on 6 November in the synagogue in Groningen. At the center of this is the 97-year-old Albrecht Weinberg. He lives in the East Frisian town of…
Chancellor commemoration of Willy Brandt
Chancellor Scholz and Berlin’s governor Giffey (centre) laid wreaths at Willy Brandt’s grave Photo: Fabian Sommer/dpa By Oliver Ohmann 30 years ago, on October 8, 1992, Willy Brandt died. On…
Great commemoration and lantern procession October 8 Celebration: “There were so many people”
Although the celebration of Alkmaar’s Relief now begins long before October 8, the first real commemoration remains the depiction of the expulsion of the Spaniards and the laying of wreaths…
Relatives at commemoration English airmen in Norg. Their bomber crashed near Westervelde in 1943
A memorial service will be held in the Margarethakerk in Norg on Saturday 8 October in memory of the crew of an English bomber that crashed near Westervelde in the…
Heavy criticism of the Dutch East Indies commemoration on research 1945-1949
According to him, the right balance was missing and people forget how many ‘positive contributions’ Dutch soldiers made to the Indonesian population at that time. He talked about, among other…