Here is a poem read to the Dutch nation at Theo van Gogh’s memorial service. It was written by a Dutch Resistance fighter during the Nazi occupation:

All of us who’ve gathered here

The living, the dead

The stretch which parts us is small

Jointly summoned we have been

Before the court

Remember the loved one lying here

Brother, brethren or father

But give your eyes a wider view

Behold the land and people jointly

Hear this word:

Before the court we stand together

To elect either good or bad

A people which to tyranny consents

Will lose more than life and land

Then light relents