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This year marks 80 years since VE Day<\/a>, the anniversary of Germany\u2019s surrender<\/a> marking the end of the Second World War<\/a> in Europe in 1945. It has been a long time since, but there are still almost 70,000 veterans still alive today and it\u2019s as important as ever to commemorate the allied victory and pay tribute to those now gone.<\/p>\n London<\/a> is to host numerous exhibitions, displays and commemorations, including four days of official events. Here\u2019s a run-down of what\u2019s in store for 2025. <\/p>\n Beyond Victory, official events at Westminster Abbey <\/p>\n Getty Images<\/p>\n A special season of events is to take place at Westminster Abbey this year. On VE Day and throughout the summer, ceremonies, displays and talks will pay homage to Britain\u2019s efforts 80 years ago. <\/p>\n The invitation-only service \u2013 last year 25,000 people attended \u2013 is on May 8, though it will also be televised on the BBC. Before that, here\u2019s a diary of what\u2019s in store:<\/p>\n AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n Westminster walking tours, selected dates<\/strong><\/p>\n Lunchtime talk: The People\u2019s Victory, May 14<\/strong><\/p>\n Panel: Destruction, Restoration, Commemoration, Tuesday 27<\/strong><\/p>\n An evening with Sir Max Hastings: Commemoration and <\/strong>Remembrance<\/strong><\/a>, June 3<\/strong><\/p>\n Getty Images<\/p>\n Is Remembrance still working? at the National Army Museum<\/strong><\/p>\n At the National Army Museum in Chelsea, two grandchildren of high-ranking officers from opposite sides of the war will come together to discuss Remembrance and its place in modern times.<\/p>\n Henry Montgomery, grandson of Field Marshal Bernard ‘Monty’ Montgomery, and Angela Findlay, granddaughter of General Karl von Graffen of the German Wehrmacht, will join historian Dr Daniel Cowling to reflect on their respective grandfather\u2019s actions and positions in the war. <\/p>\n Traces of Belsen at the Wiener Holocaust Library<\/p>\n The Wiener Holocaust Library has opened a new exhibition, Traces of Belsen, which pays tribute to the liberation of the German concentration camp where almost half of the 120,000 prisoners died. <\/p>\n Photos, artefacts, stories and more are on show, including a diary smuggled into the camp by the daughter of the Bloomsbury library’s founder, Dr Alfred Wiener, which tells the horrifying truths of life for Jewish prisoners there.<\/p>\n VE Day in the Gardens at Stephens House and Gardens, Finchley<\/p>\n Stephens House<\/p>\n At Stephens House and Gardens in Finchley will be war film screenings, maypole dancing, and other celebrations<\/a>, as well as a collection of wartime objects collated by the Finchley Society. <\/p>\n The idea is to recreate the day in 1945 and there will also be an opportunity to take a photo, capturing the same scene 80 years on.<\/p>\n Choir performance at the Imperial War Museum<\/p>\n Local choirs are to come together for an afternoon of songs from the 1940s up until the present day at the Imperial War Museum. <\/p>\n Organised in collaboration with Sweet Track Productions, the day \u201cwill evoke the unique blend of relief, celebration, sadness and community felt across the country 80 years ago, as the Second World War in Europe came to an end\u201d. <\/p>\n![\"VE](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/VE-Day.jpeg\")
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