Media item

The Netherlands commemorates those who died

Week number 53-19

Newsreels in which Dutch subjects of a certain week are presented.

Type:
video
Length:
02:04
Publication date:
4 May 1953
User:
Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
Creator:
Polygoon-Profilti (producer) / Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (curator)
Source:
WEEKNUMMER531-HRE0000FB33

Summary of Remembrance Day WW II: - A bell meant for the National Army monument at the Grebbeberg is cast in a bell-foundry in Asten in the presence of esquire Bosch Ridder van Rosenthal and the mayor of Rhenen. At this monument a militairy commemoration ceremony is held with a.o. the laying of a wreath by minister of War, C. Staf; - prime minister Drees unveils a war monument in Enschede in the presence of its designer and maker, sculptor Mari Andriessen.