"Every #May8, #Europe commemorates the defeat of #Nazi #Germany and the end of one of history’s greatest evils. Political leaders deliver solemn speeches about freedom, democracy and the obligation to remember the victims of #fascism.

But in #Latvia, a disturbing contradiction continues to unfold in plain sight.

At #RigasBrothers’ #Cemetery—the country’s most sacred military burial ground, Latvia’s equivalent of Arlington National Cemetery—rests #SS-#Standartenführer #VoldemārsVeiss, a man associated with the Nazi occupation apparatus and the persecution of #Riga’s #Jews. Flowers continue to appear at his grave even as Latvia officially participates in ceremonies marking the defeat of #Nazism.

What makes this even more disturbing is where he is buried.

#Veiss rests in the most sacred section of the cemetery..."

https://www.washingtonjewishweek.com/flowers-for-a-nazi-latvias-shameful-victory-day-contradiction/

Dance with the dead Cherry tree

https://makertube.net/w/mnCZiZUXJg4StQqJkdB3Fu

In Belgium, May 8th is hasn't been an official holiday siince the mid seventies. November 11th is used to commemorate the victims of both world wars. There is a coalition trying to reinstate it.Today there was a meeting at the nazi camp at Breendonk fortress.
On friday, at thee local one there were children and elderly people who commemorated. An older genteman held a speech for the kids, beginning with "it al started with Julius Caesars invasion"
#May8 #imperialism

https://8meicoalitie.be/

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Let us remember

In #Vienna we celebrate the Festival of Joy to remember the 8th of May 1945.

At #Heldenplatz we enjoy a concert by Wiener Symphoniker and others. But more important, we also listen to the speech of Zeitzeugin Lucy Waldstein. She was born 1930 in Vienna and need to leave her hometown 1938.

🔗 https://on.orf.at/livestream/14523322/fest-der-freude

#neverforget #8mai #May8

We commemorate all those who fell victim to nazifascism, all those who were persecuted and displaced.
Under nazifascism, Jews, Sinti and Roma, queer people, people with disabilities, political opponents, unionists and resistance fighters were systematically persecuted and murdered.

Nazism was made possible by bystanders, silence and turning a blind eye. Remembrance is not a trivial matter, but an integral part of our fight to ensure that we recognize the injustices, oppressions and genocides of the present.

Today, racist, warmongering discourses dominates European politics. The right to asylum is effectively being shrunk to almost non-existence with the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum. Repatriation laws and centers are being enacted to speed up deportations and detentions.

To remember means to fight. Today and everyday. For social justice and solidarity.

#May8 #LiberationDay