Liberation Day 2025 in pictures

The Netherlands celebrates Liberation Day on Monday, with meals, festivals and of course Liberation Pop. De Volkskrant captures this 5 May in pictures from Wageningen, Zaltbommel, Rotterdam.

Today is May 5th, a bit like the kitchen stepladder among holidays: it's nice that it exists, but nobody understands what exactly you do with it. Moreover, today is exactly 80 years ago that 'we' (the Americans, Russians, Canadians, British, Poles and not to forget the Moroccans in Zeeland) won against the Germans in the last minute, so that is also worth something, especially that today many people have a day off. It's nice to go to the Eftelin…

From a joint freedom breakfast to parties at large stages: all over the city, 80 years of freedom will be commemorated in various ways today. There will be activities in every district and for every age group. Liberation Day 'starts' at the Anton de Komplein in Zuidoost. Here, there will be a joint freedom breakfast and the ceremony surrounding the lighting of the Amsterdam freedom fire. The rest of the day, there will be performances in the dis…