My early years in pictures 1937 - 1936
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AMSTERDAM 1937 - 1949
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At the groceryshop next door
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![](http://www.xs4all.nl/~wichm/IMAGES/kleuterschoolingangx.jpg)
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In front of the Kindergarten
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Visiting old hands from Indonesia
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A befriended artist made a painting after a photo of my grandfather, the minister.
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IJsbrand reads for his brother in 1939
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Another holiday at the villa of aunt Riet
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Visiting aunt, her daughters and neighbours. Often films were projected.
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Grandma at the Rozengracht, Amsterdam.
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Visiting nieces Tine and Noes at Wolvenstraat, Amsterdam 1939
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Mother took up an interest in Theosophy
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Children of the Theosophic sunday school 1939.
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![](http://www.xs4all.nl/~wichm/IMAGES/liefdebios.jpg)
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To the movies for ten cents
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Matinee at another cheap cinema
![Edison Bioscoop](http://www.xs4all.nl/~wichm/IMAGES/edisonbios.jpg) |
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IJsbrand and his friend Frits 1938 at the Vliegenbos, Amsterdam
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With nieces to Ymuiden, in 1939
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Mother and her father, the skipper, in 1938.
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Another abortive invention of father: paperweights of casts of old coins.
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Puppet theatre in front of our house. 1938
![Poppenkast Helmersstraat](http://www.xs4all.nl/~wichm/IMAGES/helmerstraatpoppenkast.jpg) |
Video clip of scene of fishmonger in front of our house - grandmother and her friend paying a visit. 1939
9,5mm filmset as used by my father
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IJsbrand at his tenth birthday.
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IJsbrand, nine years old, at school in 1938.
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With friends. Jewish boy at left was transported and gassed at Auschwitz in 1943. |
![foto: Matroos Rademakers](http://www.xs4all.nl/~wichm/IMAGES/matroosrademaker39.jpg)
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Visiting sailor Rademaker was killed at German invasion in 1940 .
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![Intocht duitse troepen 1940](http://www.xs4all.nl/~wichm/IMAGES/duitsersbegroet.jpg)
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Entry of German troups in Amsterdam May 1940
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![foto: J.v.Lennepkade 59](http://www.xs4all.nl/~wichm/IMAGES/lennepkadenichtjes41.jpg)
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foto 1940: We move into a new home at Jacob van Lennepkade 59, Amsterdam
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Austrian refugee and tenant fräulein Schönhofer with friend at Nassaukade.
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My first newspaper in july 1940 reporting on German confiscation of barges for invasion of England
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The bath house we went to weekly.
![The bath house we went to weekly.](http://www.xs4all.nl/~wichm/IMAGES/badhuis.jpg) |
![foto 1941: 12de verjaardag](http://www.xs4all.nl/~wichm/IMAGES/verjaardag41.jpg)
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At his twelfth birthday in 1941 IJsbrand was given conjurer's attributes
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A day with family to the Nieuwe Meer near Amsterdam, 1941
![foto aan het Nieuwe Meer](http://www.xs4all.nl/~wichm/IMAGES/nieuwemeer.jpg) |
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In the basement 1942
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The cold winter of 1942
![foto winter 1942](http://www.xs4all.nl/~wichm/IMAGES/winter42.jpg) |
In 1943 IJsbrand is going to stay with family in East of Holland
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He is given a new bike to cycle four miles to school
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When he is 14 years' old IJsbrand had to apply for an identity card
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New year's Eve in 1943 at home
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Making a trip by train in 1944
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A day in the country Summer '44.
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After the invasion liberation troups are expected any moment in Deventer.
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When troups fail to arrive IJsbrand returns to Amsterdam. His father has bought him a piano, but his head is somewhere else.
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Without food supply IJsbrand undertakes hunger treks
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Emergency stoves for lack of coal
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Wooden blocks for heating are stolen from tram rails
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Emergency rations at soup kitchens
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Finally liberation May 1945.
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LIBERATION: LIFE RESUMES ITS OLD TEMPO
![](http://www.xs4all.nl/~wichm/IMAGES/yslab.jpg) | IJsbrand's laboratorium
IJsbrand takes up going to school again. Has a great interest in new inventions and explores chemistry
Fancy dress with nieces, summer '45.
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Canadian soldiers steal nieces' hearts (1945)
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Father's brother, psychiatrist, arrives from Cairo.
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IJsbrand goes to stay with his aunt Riet in her villa in Epse, Gorssel, near Deventer, in 1946.
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Self portrait 18 years old in 1947
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IJsbrand at a sailing trip in 1947
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With his uncle Henny at river IJsel, 1947
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Recapitulation of previous pages with photos and clips
The above photos also appear in my autobiography in Dutch: