Throughout Friday, local residents can come and admire the encampment, children can play games in front of the door. “On May 4, I often also commemorate family members who were involved in the war or who left for the Dutch East Indies and never came back. On May 5, I celebrate freedom, happiness. Being able to show this,” says Jos and throws his hands in the air. “Thanks to the Canadians, the English and the Americans we are free. Strange men, boys, who decide to go to Europe because they are being slaughtered there by Nazis. You have to think about that every year. If only in this way .”
Jos builds a Canadian encampment in the front yard: ‘That’s not a mannequin, but the boy who came to liberate us’
