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Dutch civilian in Beverwijk and Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1940-1945
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REEL 1 Background in Netherlands and France, 1920-1940: education; period of voluntary work in maternity hospital in Rheims, 1939; outbreak of war, 9/1939; return journey to Netherlands including disruption in Paris; awareness of Nazi Germany. Aspects of period as civilian in Beverwijk and Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1940-1945: announcement made by Dutch Prime Minister on German invasion; family; hoarding of food; rationing; removal of food, trams and factories to Germany; evacuation of Royal Family; work with father; midwifery training in Amsterdam; status of midwifes in Netherlands; health of civilians; changes to life in Amsterdam.
REEL 2 Continues: results of petrol shortages; story of attempted bicycle theft; curfew; support given to railway workers during 1944 strike; resistance movement and collaborators; story of breaking curfew and arrest; details of Razzia including resistance work of brothers; question of fraternising with Germans; father's work and assistance given to resistance members; German reprisals for work of resistance; pre-war knowledge of anti-Semitism in Germany and contact with Jewish refugees; hiding of Jews in Netherlands; hiding of art; changes to life during work including shortages; background of Jewish friend, Carla van Rijn; rounding up of Jewish people, 1/4/1943, as witnessed by Gough from work; disappearance of van Rijn family.
REEL 3 Continues: examples of Jews hiding in Netherlands; Jewish colleagues in hospital; background to later finding Carla van Rijn in Israel; details of messages decoded and passed between van Rijn family in Westerbork concentration camp and Carla van Rijn; discussion of effects of Anne Frank's story; support given by Dutch to Jewish people in hiding; listening to BBC including hiding of radio; following progress of war including restrictions on movement and flooding caused by German Army; increasing shortages through 1944; health problems in Amsterdam; work treating infectious diseases including conditions in hospital; own health; rations.
REEL 4 Continues: gaining of food from different sources; food given to patients and staff of hospital; description of a new arrival; treatment of different diseases including available drugs; dealing with dead; story of witnessing Germans continuing to fight after armistice; newspapers during war; work in Beverwijk after war; Allied air drops including MRSA in hospital during war; knowledge of Holocaust; recovery after war; effects of occupation; further details of parents' involvement with resistance; period working in Dutch East Indies.