We live in a time when some young people no longer believe that the Holocaust really took place. It therefore seems important to us to listen to the voice of youth. How does the young generation view war and peace in the past and present?

During Remembering the Dead with Meneer De Wit’s Choir, Finn Harder, a high school student, will tell the story he heard from his grandparents about two people who both lived through World War II but had very different experiences. It is important to tell these stories, especially in the light of inhumane violence resulting in countless deaths and injuries in the current war in Ukraine. It is also important to realise that such violence inflicted on people will torment them for generations to come. For that is the lesson we took away from World War II.

Programme

We invite you to join us from 19.30 at Studio 1, Baarsjesweg 202.

We will follow the national programme with live footage on a large TV screen and go to the White Cross on Baarsjesweg at 7.50pm. There, we will lay flowers and hold a two-minute silence.

We will then return to the studio and schoolchild Finn Harder will give a talk on his grandparents’ war past. After this, our concert will begin.

There will be coffee and tea for our visitors. After the concert, local residents are invited to have a drink with us.

Suitable for children 8+ years