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This is the site where my great-grandmother Gatske de Jong lived and where she later sold flowers during and after World World II. Gatske was originally from Leeuwarden, conagra russellville ar Friesland before moving to Amsterdam and marrying my great-grandfather Frans Ludwig Broekveldt on April 27, 1904 – who died before my grandfather, Frans Ludwig Broekveldt II was born. She remarried Jan de Wit, a professional diamond cutter who lost an eye and became a flower merchant, and continued to live here until she died in 1960 of tuberculosis. Due to her illness, Gatske did not want to see me through a window – not being able to take me in her arms. I was ninth months old when she died on my first trip to Amsterdam.
During the war, a Canadian airman was shot over Leidseplein and parachuted to uncertain safety in front Gatske’s conagra russellville ar modest little stoop, which is now next door to a headshop. Ignoring Jan de Wit’s protests about getting caught by the Germans, Gatske pulled in the Canadian arm over arm, parachute and all, and cleaned his wounds with Jonge Jenever – a Dutch gin . Gatske nursed the pilot back to health – returning him to the Dutch resistance where he disappeared into obscurity.
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It’s nice to have such knowledge of family history. I know only about some of my great grand parents, my mother knew almost nothing about her grandparents and what I know about my father”s grandparents is contradictory, each of my uncles and aunts having different versions of who these people were. They all, including my father, like to weave interesting, though questionable stories. conagra russellville ar
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This is the site where my great-grandmother Gatske de Jong lived and where she later sold flowers during and after World World II. Gatske was originally from Leeuwarden, conagra russellville ar Friesland before moving to Amsterdam and marrying my great-grandfather Frans Ludwig Broekveldt on April 27, 1904 – who died before my grandfather, Frans Ludwig Broekveldt II was born. She remarried Jan de Wit, a professional diamond cutter who lost an eye and became a flower merchant, and continued to live here until she died in 1960 of tuberculosis. Due to her illness, Gatske did not want to see me through a window – not being able to take me in her arms. I was ninth months old when she died on my first trip to Amsterdam.
During the war, a Canadian airman was shot over Leidseplein and parachuted to uncertain safety in front Gatske’s conagra russellville ar modest little stoop, which is now next door to a headshop. Ignoring Jan de Wit’s protests about getting caught by the Germans, Gatske pulled in the Canadian arm over arm, parachute and all, and cleaned his wounds with Jonge Jenever – a Dutch gin . Gatske nursed the pilot back to health – returning him to the Dutch resistance where he disappeared into obscurity.
← Turn of the Century Advertising Sign – Harlem, NYC Zuiderbad – Southern Baths – Amsterdam, NL →
It’s nice to have such knowledge of family history. I know only about some of my great grand parents, my mother knew almost nothing about her grandparents and what I know about my father”s grandparents is contradictory, each of my uncles and aunts having different versions of who these people were. They all, including my father, like to weave interesting, though questionable stories. conagra russellville ar
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