Liberation
Liberation Day, May 8, 2021
V-Day (English Victory in Europe Day, abbreviated VE-Day) is the annual celebration of the day on which Nazi Germany officially capitulated on May 8, 1945. In the former Eastern Bloc countries, May 9 is celebrated as Victory Day because due to the local...
75 Years of Freedom Stamp Issue
To mark the end of the Second World War 75 years ago, PostNL is issuing the 75 Years of Freedom stamp sheet on Saturday, April 4, 2020. The issue consists of six stamps with two different images. The print run comprises 82.000 stamp sheets. The...
75 years Auschwitz: Never Again
Auschwitz concentration camp is the most notorious Nazi extermination camp of World War II. In no other concentration camp were so many people murdered. How did Auschwitz become the symbol of the Holocaust? World leaders and heads of state gathered in...
Operation Market Garden and the period before and after
Graphic designer Henk Marseille based the Operation Market Garden 1944 – 1994 commemorative stamp (nvph 1619) on a horizontal photograph. A number of Dutch people meet American paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division in Son on September 17, 1944. They leave...
