Freedom is a great privilege

Maria Tadema (27) is coordinator of the WW2 Nijmegen Information Center. She outlines what freedom means to her.

"We have the opportunity to make choices, to express ourselves freely and to go where we want. Especially here in Europe, we are used to just crossing borders without being restricted in this. This impacts our vacations, in the daily shopping we can do across borders, the people we interact with. Many around us - like me - did not grow up here, but at some point in their lives had the freedom to choose a life in the Rijk van Nijmegen. This freedom must be protected. One way to do this is to regularly remind ourselves that the freedom we live in is a great privilege, which was fought for vigorously and for a long time. Both during, but also after World War II."