CAPTION AND COPYRIGHT INFORMATION
For the Photograph of Liberation Day, Amsterdam,1945

The photograph shows Lieutenant Tony van Renterghem guiding the first Canadian Unit into Amsterdam on the day of liberation, May 1945.

Tony van Renterghem, who is Dutch by origin, but presently a citizen of the United States, has been recognized by Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Martyr's and Heroes' Remembrance Authority in Jerusalem, Israel as "Righteous Among the Nations": a person who risked much to save Jewish people from the Holocaust.

The photograph is copyright to Centraal Beeldarchief and used by permission of Tony van Renterghem, proprietor.


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