'Phone two minutes on May 4 '

- Put your cell phone during the Remembrance Day on 4 May at 20.00 hours two minutes. This is a joint appeal from the National Committee 4 and 5 May and the joint telecom providers.

'Today, we are available 24/7. The mobile phone has become an essential part of our lives. But on May 4 to 20. 00 is silent... Really quiet... A silence that speaks. In that silence we remember the war and lack of freedom. A stronger signal than turning off your phone, you can not give, 'says director Jan van Kooten of the committee.

The telecom provider KPN, Vodafone and T-Mobile and the Committee will conduct over the next few days, including social media campaign to get people to do so. There is a special website where people can sign up.,, The mobile phone has become a huge matter of course in our lives. Less obvious is the realization that freedom is something special. How nice is it to emphasize the peculiarity of that freedom by the obvious device just to turn off? It is a simple but powerful message ', notify the telecommunication providers.

Three quarters of Dutch people feel during the Remembrance Day and Liberation strongly interconnected. This is evident from the National Freedom Survey 2016 of the National Committee 4 and 5th. On May 5, experiencing 73 percent of Dutch people a sense of solidarity with people who are not living in freedom. An equally large part of the population there that day realize that freedom is not self-evident.