The Netherlands still square behind Remembrance Day and Liberation Day
A large majority of Dutch people still think it is important to remember the National Remembrance Day on May 4 and Liberation Day on May 5. Are there any concerns? Yes quite. Because of the war that is now raging in Ukraine.
It reports that National Committee 4 and 5 May based on the National Freedom Survey 2022. The Committee organizes the annual Remembrance Day under the motto ‘Freedom is shared with each other’. Of the people who took part in the survey after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, more than six in ten are most concerned about war.
Commemoration of death and May 5 remain important
The Dutch consider May 4 and 5 particularly important because of the sense of solidarity and because it is important for them to reflect on the people who died for freedom. “It also plays a role in the future that it really could no longer take place if the Second World War”, the committee states. At Remembrance Day 2021 André van Duin made a deep impression – on an empty, but full Dam Square in Amsterdam tomorrow, with a speech about his father.
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— Committee 4 and 5 May (@Comite4en5mei) May 2, 2022
Support for May 4 is expected: 83 percent indicate that the National Commemoration is (very) important. That was 85 percent a year earlier. There is a slight decrease for Liberation Day. Where last year percent indicated a lot of value 79 percent to that holiday, it is now 75 percent.
Proud of the Netherlands ‘which was often large’
The committee also commissioned research into the feelings that Dutch history evokes among the Dutch. This shows that about one in five people feel gratitude and pride. “People feel grateful for the liberation, the liberators and for being allowed to live in the Netherlands,” the committee said. The Dutch are often proud that their ‘little country’ was ‘large’ in selected areas and then think of, for example, the Golden Age and the battle against water.
One in ten respondents indicated that they experienced shame about the past of the Netherlands, often citing the colonial era and the slavery past. This shows the differences between population groups. Most often shame at the past of our country. With people of Antillean or Surinamese descent, it is more often about anger.
The National Freedom Survey is an annual survey of public support for commemoration and celebration in the Netherlands. Research agency Centerdata additionally carries out this research on behalf of the National Committee 4 and 5 May. This year, more than 1,300 Dutch people took part.
Is May 5 a public holiday?
The question posed above. It can be answered with ‘yes, but’. May 5 is a public holiday, but many people end up taking a day off once every five years (years ending in a 0 of a 5). There have been rumors for years to change that and to make Liberation Day an annual day off. According to Piet Fortuin of the trade union congress, such a holiday could possibly cost more than. “People spend a lot of money on such a holiday, for example at festivals and in the catering industry. A holiday can also have a de-stressing effect. important at a time when employers are costing a few annually in absenteeism as a result of stress spending.”
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