(4 May 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Amsterdam, Netherlands – 4 May 2025
1. Zoom in of procession laying wreaths during WWII Remembrance in Amsterdam
2. Mid of attendees holding flowers
3. Wide of dignitaries and military officials
4. Mid of attendees seated
5. Various of procession including Dutch King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima arriving
6. Royal couple laying wreath
7. Wide of ceremony
8. Zoom out from royal couple to ceremony during moment of silence
9. Various of ceremony, wreath laying
10. SOUNDBITE (Dutch) Dick Schoof, Dutch Prime Minister:
"On this day, in two minutes of silence, that echo sounds extra loud. When we think of all people who were murdered for who they were. Who died of hunger or exhaustion. Or who fought for peace and freedom. Our peace and freedom”
11. Wide of ceremony
STORYLINE:
Trains came to a halt, cars pulled to the side of the road and no plane arrived or departed in the Netherlands for two minutes on Sunday, as the country went silent to remember victims of war.
Thousands of people gathered in Amsterdam to watch as Dutch King Willem-Alexander laid a wreath at a war memorial, 80 years and a day since the country was liberated from Nazi occupation in 1945.
Prime Minister Dick Schoof discussed the grief his family felt over the death of his grandfather, who was executed by Nazi soldiers for his work in the resistance.
“On this day, in the two minutes of silence, that echo sounds extra loud. When we think of all the people who were murdered for who they were. Who died of hunger or exhaustion. Or who fought for peace and freedom. Our peace and freedom,” Schoof said.
The national day of commemoration, at which flags fly at half staff from buildings throughout the country, honors military personnel and civilians killed in conflicts around the world since the outbreak of World War II. It is followed Monday by celebrations to mark the country’s liberation from Nazi German occupation at the end of the war.
Later Sunday evening, two veterans will light a Liberation Fire to kickstart a day of celebrations marking the 80th anniversary of the end of German occupation of the Netherlands. Mervyn Kersh, a 100-year-old veteran from Britain, and Nick Janicki, 101, from Canada will light the flame in Wageningen, the central city where German officers signed the official surrender in 1945, organizers said.
AP video shot by Ahmad Seir Nassiri
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