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Nigel Worden (born 27 March 1955) is a British/South African historian who has researched the history of Cape slavery and the social and cultural history of early colonial Cape Town. He is Emeritus Professor of History and retired from the Historical Studies department at the University of Cape Town , South Africa in 2016.
A modest woman, she spoke little of her work with the Dutch Resistance until she was interviewed by Nico Scheepmaker for an article in the Dutch newspaper, De Gooi-en Eemlander, regarding Marga Minco's book, "Het Bittere Kruid" ("The Bitter Herb"). [18] Ina Drukker-Boekbinder's mother and sister both also survived the war. [19]
Princess Wilhelmina on 4 May 1955, at the monument for Kuipers-Rietberg in Winterswijk. Statue by Gerrit Bolhuis.. Helena Theodora Kuipers-Rietberg (26 May 1893 – 27 December 1944) was a Dutch resistance member who played an important role during World War II, when she was one of the driving forces of a national underground organization that supported those who were hiding from the German ...
NiNsee also documents the oral history of slavery to help stimulate awareness of the collective history of slavery. NiNsee organizes conferences and workshops to shed light on the history of Dutch slavery and its impact on Dutch society from varied and diverse perspectives, on an international and national level.
(Reuters) -As the Netherlands on Monday marked 161 years since the abolition of slavery with annual Ketikoti celebrations, activists have questioned the sincerity of apologies by Dutch authorities ...
Jannetje Johanna Schaft was born in Haarlem, the capital of the province of North Holland. [1] Her mother, Aafje Talea Schaft (born Vrijer) was a Mennonite and her father, Pieter Schaft, a teacher, was attached to the Social Democratic Workers' Party; the two were very protective of Schaft because of the death due to diphtheria of her older sister Anna in 1927.
Finally, the Dutch slave trade was abolished in June 1814 by Royal Decree from William I. In May 1818, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands concluded an Anglo-Dutch Slave Trade Treaty, which, among other things, provided for the establishment of two Joint Courts of Justice to convict slavers who tried to evade the ban. However, the legal ...
Ruff-O'Herne was born in 1923 in Bandung in the Dutch East Indies, then a colony of the Dutch Empire.She grew up as a devout Catholic. [4] During the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies, Ruff-O'Herne and thousands of Dutch women were forced into hard physical labor at a prisoner-of-war camp at a disused army barracks in Ambarawa, Indonesia. [5]