@hex@kolektiva.social2026-05-04 21:27:27
A friend reminded me that today is remembrance day in the Netherlands. Tomorrow, May 5th, is Liberation Day, which celebrates the end of Nazi occupation. On May 4th, at 20:00, the whole country has two minutes of silence to remember those who were lost.
There's something about this that is powerful.
There's a statue that I pass by regularly. It is a monument to the resistance. It is a place where Nazis executed prisoners without trial as retribution for resistance. This evening there were Dutch flags there, though I think about how many anarchists, like Wieke Bosch (who I didn't know anything about), were killed resisting.
I wonder how many names of our martyrs are hidden behind so many national flags. I feel like I should spend more time learning, and think about them on the evening of May 4th.
