Holland Focus May-June 2015

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vol. 10 no. 3 - MAY/JUNE 2015

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ARTICLES______________________ 4 Westerbork, gateway to Hell

8 Tulpengekte herleeft in Haarlem

10 Guitarist Remko Willems gives boost to Gipsy music 16 Forbidden places by Wil Westerweel 19 Black is the new orange 20 De wolf is terug in Nederland 24 2 culturen op 1 kussen...

28 Wartime cookbooks 32 Dai Forterre, working on

sustainable global environment 42 Prince Constantijn opens

EIT ICT Labs in Eindhoven 54 More with less: NL and NZ

working together in Dairy 60 Keukenhof 2015, theme Vincent van Gogh 62 The Zuytdorp Inscription a fake

38 41 46 49 52 56 58 66

Tegenvoeter - Ruud Hisgen Gedicht Belicht - Frans Hertoghs Springtime in the Netherlands - Erik Feenstra profiel van Sophie Rutten De Leesplank kids Dutch Cuisine Taals Taaltje - Klein landje zwart handje Verbeeldingen - de spiegelmaker

Kröller Müller Museum

CONTENTS

COMPETITION-_________________ 67 Competition to win André Rieu album COMMUNITY NEWS_____________ 15 Team Orange in Perth 50 DACC participates in

Cultural Initiatives Workshop 64 nieuws uit Zuid-Australië 65 Rembrandt Club news REGULARS___________________ 3 editorial 23 Kaas koppen 31 Dutch/Flemish movies - L’il Quinquin

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Schilder als Van Gogh Op 31 maart 2015, is onder het motto ‘125 jaar inspiratie’ de grote Vincent van Gogh schilderwedstrijd gestart: Schilder als Van Gogh. Deze wedstrijd herdenkt dat de wereldberoemde Nederlandse kunstschilder 125 jaar geleden overleed en wil kunstenaars uit binnen- en buitenland stimuleren om zich door Vincent van Gogh, zijn leven, zijn werk en zijn tijd te laten inspireren.

Inschrijven Schilders van alle niveaus, uit alle windhoeken en van alle leeftijden kunnen aan de wedstrijd deelnemen en zich inschrijven via de website. De techniek en het formaat van het schilderij is vrij. Dus acryl mag, evenals olieverf, aquarel en elke andere natte techniek. Inzendingen mogen vierkant, liggend of staand, ovaal, rond en rechthoekig zijn in elk denkbaar formaat. Het thema is ‘Vincent van Gogh – 125 jaar inspiratie’. Dit betekent dat de ingezonden schilderijen geïnspireerd moeten zijn door het leven, werk en de tijd van Vincent van Gogh in de breedste zin van het woord. Bijna alles is mogelijk: van variaties op de zonnebloemen, de zaaier of een terras met absintdrinkers, tot een gigantisch oor of een stilleven in de stijl van Van Gogh.

Vakjury Na sluiting van de inschrijving (eind augustus) kiezen publiek en vakjury uit het totale aantal inzendingen samen de 125 beste werken. Deze worden van 12 november 2015 tot en met 17 januari 2016 geëxposeerd in het Breda’s Museum. De juryleden hebben in hun dagelijks leven allemaal te maken met de schilderkunst in het algemeen en Vincent van Gogh in het bijzonder.

Zij kiezen uiteindelijk ook de prijswinnaars van de wedstrijd.

Alle informatie over onder meer deelname, beoordeling, prijzen en expositie is te vinden op www. vangoghschilderwedstrijd.nl.

De wedstrijd is ook te volgen via de Facebook-pagina www. facebook.com/vangoghschilderwedstrijd.

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Letter from the editor This year it is 70 years ago that the war ended. Many commemorations are happening throughout the year. As it happened, today, when I am writing this editorial, is the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Kamp Westerbork 107,000 people went through this camp.

Adam Muyt wrote an article about this Gateway to Hell, starting on page 4. Paola wrote an article about wartime cookbooks, many women had to make-do with what was available, tulip bulbs recipes must have been popular.

It is spring in the Netherlands and many tourists know the Keukenhof will be open to the public. This year’s theme is Vincent van Gogh and the Keukenhof was opened by a relative of Vincent, see the article on page 60. They expect 800,000 visitors from 100 countries, about 20,000 to 40,000 per day. Imagine that amount of visitors at a Dutch event in Australia, like King’s day.

Tulipmania is also a topic at the Keukenhof, this year and also in Haarlem, in the Frans Hals Museum. That was an embarrassing period in the Dutch history, tulip bulbs sold for enormous amount of money. But the market suddenly collapsed as the graph below shows. It is considered the first recorded economic bubble.

Anyway enjoy the magazine and don’t forget to make the appeltaart from one of the recipes on page 56.

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Westerbork

May 2015 marks the 70th anniversary of the end of the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. Over 100,000 Dutch Jews - around 75% of the total Jewish population of Holland at the time - were murdered in those years.

Almost all passed through Westerbork Transit Camp in Drenthe on their way to Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen and other Nazi death camps. Westerbork was the gateway to Hell for Dutch Jewry.

There was no forced labour or starvation, no gas chambers or mass crematoria at Westerbork; rather, the camp was designed and organised to make it easier to move people onwards, by creating the illusion that deportations would be to similar types of camps in the East. words Adam Muyt

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At Westerbork the Nazis left the day-to-day internal camp organisation to the Jewish internees. In return they expected - and got - the maintenance of camp order and discipline, and the delivery each week of the required numbers of people for the transports to the East.

and the fact that virtually nothing was ever heard from those sent eastwards, meant few willingly left the camp.

The result was chaos and turmoil each Monday evening when the names of those to be deported the next day were announced.

Compared to the concentration camps of Germany and Poland, the situation at Westerbork was tolerable, though hardly benign. Conditions were cramped and crowded but regular meals and clean water were provided. Theatre, music and sports activities were actively encouraged, children had a school and nursery, workshops offered reasonable labour to many inmates and mail could be sent and received. Health care was some of the best on offer in Holland at the time – the hospital had over a hundred doctors and a thousand staff at its peak, and incorporated the inventories of the Central Israel Hospital in Amsterdam and several Jewish nursing and retirement homes after these were closed by the Nazis. Given the fate of most here, this level of care was tragically ironic, a ghoulish testament to the Nazi mindset.

Life in Camp Westerbork was not ideal but it would have been bearable if it had not been for the transports. They destroyed any sense of security and kept the camp in a constant state of anxiety and crisis. Every outgoing transport brought great dismay. The moving of people into the train proceeded practically in silence. One had no words for it. The passengers had lost the battle. There was lamentation, hurt, sorrow and an overwhelming feeling of powerlessness. Resistance was impossible.

Few, if any, of the internees were certain about their ultimate fate so the loading of the transports proceeded smoothly for more than two years. But the reality of the Nazi ideology and regime fuelled justifiable fears; this, together with being separated from friends and family,

As soon as the train started moving we nearly always heard the singing of the Hatikvah (Our Hope), which was to become the national anthem of Israel. It was a heroic communal affirmation and protest at this forced evacuation to an unknown destination. The train pulled away and departed into the distance, leaving only a deathly silence, as though one had brought a beloved family member to his last resting place. The grief was tangible...a poignant sorrow affected us all...it was everyone’s defeat because they had lost the fight to stay in Holland. Uncertainty ruled. What was there to hope for from the East?

The next day was different again because the fight to stay in Holland and survive began all over again. And what would that day bring? Who could say?

Adrian Vanas, In the Lion’s Den (See Box).

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Altogether 93 transports left Westerbork for the East between July 1942 and September 1944. Of the more than 100,000 Dutch citizens forced onto these trains, less than 5,000 returned.

Today, little remains of the original camp: the Commandant’s house at the entrance, an old potato storage cellar, a bunker, alongside a rebuilt watch tower, a barrack and barb-wire perimeter fencing. The lack of physical reminders of its dark past however, doesn’t - and shouldn’t - matter. Westerbork the site, remains: as a memorial, a reminder, as a symbol.

In 1983 the Herinneringscentrum Kamp Westerbork opened near the old camp ground with the aim of commemorating and telling the story of Westerbork and the persecution of Dutch Jewry. The Herinneringscentrum houses permanent exhibitions, special displays, a comprehensive database and extensive archival material. The former camp is managed directly by the Herinneringscentrum.

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Westerbork - An Australian Connection Adrian Vanas (originally van As) was born in Indonesia in 1919, moving to the Netherlands to study in 1937. He was about to qualify as a navigator in the Dutch merchant navy when the Germans invaded. Desperate for work, Adrian eventually ended up in a food distribution position with the Rotterdam city council. This role proved critical for what soon evolved: Adrian and Bertha, his wife, joined the Resistance in 1941 and he was asked to take up a similar food distribution role at Westerbork in order to watch and report on what was going on there.

Deeply motivated by their strong Christian faith, Adrian and Bertha spent more than two years at Westerbork doing whatever they could to help the inmates there. In the words of Dirk Mulder, the Director of the Herinneringscentrum, Adrian and Bertha “...refused...to hold themselves aloof from the tragedy going on around them...despite all the dangers, they held on and remained true to their values.”

Between them Adrian and Bertha saved the lives of hundreds, hiding some, providing false papers to others, helping many to escape. In 1992 their actions were recognised by Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Centre of Israel, where they were declared Righteous Among the Nations. This is the highest accolade for Gentiles who helped Jews during the Holocaust.

In 1955 Adrian and Bertha migrated to Sydney where they raised their family. Bertha died in 1999 - Adrian spent the next fifteen years involved with Courage to Care, an education program aimed at teaching children about racism, prejudice and bullying.

in exactly the same manner as we’d like to be treated. We all say those things and don’t often live them, but Adrian does.”

In an interview for the Sydney Morning Herald in April 2012, Andrew Havas from Courage to Care, made this observation on Adrian: “Adrian’s messages have always been: don’t be a bystander - if you see something wrong, get up and do something about it - we’re all equal and should treat each other

In 2012 Adrian published an account of his time at Westerbork, In the Lion’s Den – subverting the Nazis from within Westerbork Transit Camp 1942-1943. Highly recommended, as much for the insights into Westerbork, as for Adrian’s humility and decency.

Adrian died in January 2014, aged 93.

Ultimately, it is a place for contemplation.

The camp once stood in barren heathland - now it’s enclosed in forest, with trees dotted throughout. The greenery of today challenges the horrors of the early 1940s, by adding softness and beauty to a place where it was once banished.

Outside the camp entrance are five sombre sarcophaguslike structures, each inscribed with the name of one of the Nazi death camps, along with the numbers sent there. This memorial leads into the main drive back to the Herinneringscentrum. Ninety three simple wooden posts line the drive - each carries the date and numbers on board of one of the transports that left Westerbork.

A handful of poignant memorials dot the place and surrounds. One is situated on the former parade ground.

Consisting of 102,000 stones, one for each Jew (and Roma and Sinti) who was transported from Westerbork and murdered, they form a stylised map of the Netherlands to represent the fact that Dutch Jews came from every part of the country.

The National Westerbork Memorial is located at the siding of the original railway track running through the camp. Unveiled in 1970, its most powerful element is the pair of rail tracks torn away from the sleepers, dramatically pointing skywards. The image created simultaneously reminds us of the very last journey taken by almost all camp inmates while demanding that such journeys must never take place again.

Westerbork stands as a telling reminder of what happens when we forgo our shared humanity, allowing prejudice and intolerance to hold sway. A visit to Westerbork is unsettling but one we perhaps all need to take.

For more information on Westerbork and the Herinneringscentrum, visit www.kampwesterbork.nl/ The Herinneringscentrum has numerous videos available at its Youtube channel. https://www.youtube.com/user/ Herinneringscentrum/playlists

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page 4: Stones on old parade ground (Adam Muyt); Poles along the road to Kamp Westerbork that chronologize the number of people that arrived at the camp during WWII (Vera de Kok); Bend rails (Ziko) page 5: monument in the shape of barrack walls (Frits Pentengal) page 6: deportation from Westerbork; Jerusalem rock (speurneus); memorial blocks at entrance in the shape of sarcophagus (Adam Muyt).

Two other memorials build on this theme of the final journey.

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photo Frans Hals Museum G.J. van Rooij

Tulpengekte

herleeft in Haarlem de tulpenvelden van de bekende kwekers Pieter Bol, Barend Cardoes, Dirk Voorhelm en anderen. Aan deze tijd herinneren nu nog de Jopenbrouwerij, de Vijfhoek ook wel de Jordaan van Haarlem genoemd en uiteraard de schilderijen in het Frans Hals museum. Om dit alles, inclusief de Keukenhof, te bezoeken verstrekt het op de Grote Markt gelegen VVV/City Marketing Haarlem arrangementen en een wandeling.

Anno 2015 valt het moeilijk voor te stellen, maar in 1635 kostte een enkele tulpenbol een vermogen. Zo betaalde men in Haarlem voor de bloedrood gevlamde Semper Augustus de prijs van 10.000 gulden per bol, evenveel als een grachtenpand in Amsterdam. Dezelfde bloem staat nu op affiches als aankondiging van de Tulpomania.

Een project van het Frans Hals Museum, City Marketing Haarlem, Jopenbierbrouwerij en Keukenhof om de tulpengekte van toen te doen herleven.

Dankzij de vruchtbare bodem rondom haar is Haarlem voor Nederland nog steeds de bloemenstad bij uitstek.

Om de stad te promoten en te zorgen voor een gastvrij onthaal kent Haarlem al meer dan 50 jaar het fenomeen bloemenmeisjes. Sinds 1947 is Haarlem jaarlijks het eindpunt van de bloemencorso van de Bollenstreek, met twintig praalwagens een van de grootste bloemencorso’s ter wereld. Vlakbij bevindt zich in Aalsmeer de Keukenhof.

Het project Tulpomania rijgt dit alles aaneen met een wandeling, museumbezoek, bierproeverij eventueel een bezoek aan Keukenhof.

Frans Hals Tijdens het Keukenhof-seizoen slaat de bloemengekte ook toe in het Frans Hals museum. Dankzij vele vrijwilligers zien we overal mooie boeketten van tulpen en andere bloemen in speciaal gemaakte moderne en antieke bloemenvazen. Een handige audiotour vertelt allerlei bijzonderheden over de bloemen op de doeken en hun betekenis.

Tot de vaste collectie van het Frans Hals museum behoren twee schilderijen over de gekte van de Tulpomania. Op een werk van Hendrick Gerritsz ‘’Flora’s mallewagen” (1640) rennen boze wevers achter een mallewagen.

Een door Simon Stevin ontworpen zeilwagen waarmee prins Maurits van Oranje met een snelheid van 50 km per uur van Scheveningen naar Petten vaarde. Op deze mallewagen zitten dwaze figuren rondom de godin Flora.

Leckebaert kan het drinken niet laten, Graegrijk houdt een zak met geld in zijn hand en Liegwagen verkoopt praatjes. Dame Vergaer weegt al haar geld. Dame IJdele hoop houdt een vogel in haar hand. De mallewagen zal spoedig in zee verdwijnen zoals ook de tulpomanie

Jopen Tulpomania neemt ons mee naar de 17e eeuw. De stad Haarlem maakte in die tijd een ongekende bloei door.

Op de kaden langs de grachten lagen grote houten vaten vol bier de zogenaamde Jopen. Vooral het Koytbier en Hoppenbier waren favoriet. In de huidige Vijfhoek, de Jordaan van Haarlem, bloeide de industrie in laken.

Ten zuiden van Haarlem bevonden zich buiten de Kleine Houtpoort de boomgaarden en landerijen met 8

photo Frans Hals Museum G.J. van Rooij

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bedrijventerrein Waardepolder in Haarlem. Intussen telt het bedrijf Jopenbierbrouwerij honderd man personeel.

Het begon allemaal in 1994 met de vondst in het stadsarchief van het recept van het in de 17e eeuw zo populaire Koyt en Hoppenbier. Het ene recept stamde uit 1407 en het andere uit 1501. Ter ere van 750 jaar stadrechten, dat gevierd werd in 1995, besloot De Stichting Haarlems Biergenootschap deze bieren opnieuw te laten brouwen. Er volgden meer bieren, waarvan menige tijdens internationale concoursen een gouden medaille wonnen. Voor Tulpomania ontwikkelden de Jopenbierbrouwerij genoemd naar de vaten die in de 17e eeuw op de kade lagen, het speciaalbier Tulpomania.

Gebrouwen naar oud Luiks recept bestaat dit voor 50% uit spelt. Een droog fris bier, dat begint met iets van bloemen en eindigt met een bittertje.

gedoemd is kopje onder te gaan. Op de achtergrond zien we de St Bavo van Haarlem.

Semper Augustus In februari 1637 stortte de handel in tulpenbollen opeens in. Wat bleek? De bloedrode vlammen op de Semper Augustus, Victoria en andere tulpen werden veroorzaakt door luizen. Zodra dit bekend werd probeerde iedereen zijn tulpenbollen halsoverkop te verkopen. Veel speculanten verloren een fortuin en bleven met schulden achter. Schilders en tekenaars dreven de spot met de tulpenhandel op hun doeken en prenten.

Mooi verbeeld zien we dit op de ‘allegorie op de tulpengekte’, een werk van Jan Breughel en behorende tot de vaste collectie van het Frans Halsmuseum. Het is een doek vol dwaze apen. Apen onderhandelen over de prijs voor een tulpenbol. Apen tellen geld. Rechts onderin staat een aap op tulpen te plassen om de spot te drijven met de tulpomanie.

Keukenhof Vanuit de Jopenkerk wandelen we naar het station. We verlaten Haarlem met zijn 1200 Rijksmonumenten, de tweede monumentenstad van Nederland. Bus 50 van Arriva brengt ons naar de Keukenhof, die jaarlijks tot eind mei geopend is. Daar bezoeken we de expositie Tulpomania. Deze vertelt allerlei leuke weetjes over de tulp. Afkomstig uit de bergen tussen China en Turkije dankt de tulp haar naam aan de tulband van Aziatische heersers. In de tuin zelf zie je de tulpen uit de 17e eeuw waaraan Haarlem zijn Tulpomania dankt.

Brouwerij Na het Frans Hals museum wandelen we door de Vijfhoek naar de stadsbrouwerij de Jopenkerk. Twintig jaar geleden begonnen op een zolderkamertje en een schuur openden Michel Ordeman en Lydian Zoetman op 11 november 2010 in de voormalige Jacobskerk (1910-1975) een stadsbrouwerij annex grand café/ restaurant. In vier jaar tijd nam de productie toe van 3500 hl in 2010 naar 18.000 hl in 2015. Om aan de vraag te voldoen volgde in 2014 een brouwerij annex café/restaurant op het

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Guitarist Remko Willems

gives boost to gipsy music 10

Just like a chameleon can change colours at will, the talented Dutch guitarist Remko Willems is able to switch between the most diverse musical styles: Latin, jazz, blues, rock, singersongwriter‌ But the style he embraces the most is undeniably gipsy/Spanish music – including derivatives of it like gipsy jazz and flamenco.

He has made it his mission to carry on the musical tradition of Django Reinhardt (1910-1953), a French, Belgium-born guitarist and composer of Romani descent, and his contemporaries. words Ton van Rooij

network NCRV for the series Langs heilige huisjes (Along sacred cottages).

Playing with gipsies in France Remko Willems was born on 31 January 1970 in Ossendrecht, a Brabantine village close to the river Scheldt, and now lives in Nispen, south of Roosendaal.

Already as a child, music was his life. “I grew up in a multicultural environment, surrounded by musicians, painters and sculptors,” he reminisces. “I’ve learnt to play virtually all instruments, but it’s the guitar that truly has struck the right chord with me – and it’s been like that since I was three, when I started playing it.”

In 1996, the guitarist spent time with gypsies during their annual pilgrimage to Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer in the southern French region of the Camargue. Around the campfire and in the caravans of these gypsies, Willems made music, among others with members of famous and notorious gipsy families, such as the renowned flamenco guitarist Manitas de Plata (who died last November, age 93). “Manitas de Plata has sold more than 80 million records worldwide and has played for people like Pablo Picasso and Brigitte Bardot,” Willems knows. “He constituted an example for the Gipsy Kings. Sons of his and of his cousin José Reyes founded the Gipsy Kings.

Out of the original, raw, roots music-like rumba from the Camargue, the Gipsy Kings made something commercial, which, don’t get me wrong, is absolutely first-rate.”

Of this musical adventure, television recordings were made by the Dutch public broadcasting

At number one in USA In 1995, Willems, Fritz Schremmer – who sadly passed away in 2010, aged 67 – and Peter van Merode formed the Gipsy Music Trio, out of which later the (bigger) band Gipsy Music Social Club arose. Around the time he played in the latter, he was also part of La Maison du Swing.

With these bands, he scored hits in the United States through the music website MP3.com. As the musician recalls: “Artists could upload music on MP3.com and so did we, just for fun, in 1999. And all in a sudden, our music was promoted on it in the category World Music!

Shortly after another, two tracks recorded with the Gipsy Music Trio, our own composition Vamos and our take on the traditional Spanish song El Porompompero, even shot to number 1! Our version of the well-known Jewish folk song Hava Nagilah Hava, did very well, too: it reached the number 2 position. Through this website, we sold more music in that period than big names like Prince, the Red Hot Chili Peppers and David Bowie! From then on, things really started to roll.”

Although you might think that world domination, musically speaking, was looming, this did not occur. How come? “The huge success we had achieved in the USA had happened completely without our intention, as we’ve always stayed far away from commerce and kept everything we did small. We’ve sat around the table with Frank van der Meijden, the manager of popular bands like Doe Maar and Bløf, but we decided not to team up with him. The danger of working exclusively for an artist booking agency is that you can’t play anywhere else anymore. I don’t like that, because for me, music is freedom.”

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Guitar builder as well A few years ago, Willems decided it was time to do something new. “Because I love to do stuff with my hands,” he says, “I started building blues guitars. With these, I wanted to capture the old blues sound, as produced by black blues musicians in the early days.

I’ve made an in-depth study of that and found out that already during the American Civil War, violins were made out of cigar boxes. Slaves from West-Africa made musical instruments out of items like calabashes, which were excellent resonance boxes, and developed them further in America. The strangest objects were employed, varying from petrol cans to hubcaps. But what was used the most, were cigar, tea and wine boxes. Those early blues songs were basically laments, full of symbolism, mostly directed against plantation owners.”

At his shows, he regularly uses his self-made guitars. He also has sold and exhibited a number of them. “Some have been exhibited at events like ‘n Bende van 5 [A Gang of 5, see Holland Focus, November/December 2014], which was never the intention when I made them, but it surely is wonderful when things like that cross your path.”

Following a series of solo performances on Crete, in which international guest musicians participated, Willems was inspired to develop a brand new performing method.

By using so-called looping pedals, he creates the illusion of a complete band. On the spot, he first plays the scores of the rhythm guitar, bass and percussion, which then serve as the basis for one of the magnificent guitar solos that he improvises.

First solo album: Passion & Desire Willems recently recorded his first solo album, Passion & Desire, at the Stylesound Studio of Iman Dane in Roosendaal. It’s dedicated to his former fellow band member and soulmate Fritz Schremmer, who was also a visual artist and art teacher. “I made this album straight from the heart, without any commercial motives,” Willems underlines.

The music of nine of the – mainly instrumental – tracks was composed by himself and one, Tristessa, by him and Schremmer. Present on most of the recordings is percussionist Stefan Maas, while violist Nick Boons, who played in La Maison du Swing, participated in some of them. Heard on one number, Gipsy Love, is Willems’ new band. It’s made up of percussionist Bart Schijven, veteran bassist Peter van Merode and rhythm guitarists Joshua Smits and Hans Milikan.

Four titles on the long-player are gipsy versions of works by others, such as Summertime by George Gershwin and Besame Mucho by Consuelo Velázquez, sung brilliantly by Deborah Jacobs. The old hit Vamos is on it, too.

Cooperation with writer/artist Marion Bloem Another talent contributed to Passion & Desire as well: the acclaimed Dutch writer, poet, visual artist and filmmaker Marion Bloem. On two bonus tracks, she reads – musically framed – poetry of hers that impresses deeply: it’s affecting, thought-provoking and at times quite intense. She also made the painting that is seen

on the CD sleeve. Bloem, who just like Willems is of Indo descent, has published more than 40 books, including the novels Geen gewoon Indisch Meisje (No ordinary Indo girl), Ver van familie (Far away from family) and Een meisje van honderd (A girl of hundred).

Willems composed the track Flower for Bloem as a token of gratitude for her collaboration. Another number, Triangle, was inspired by Bloem’s poem Tussen twee (Between two).

Passion & Desire is unquestionably a beautiful collection of music and poetry. The tracks alternate from atmospheric to adventurous and from sunny-sounding to contemplative, making this a nicely varied and memorable album.

On 14 March 2015, at Schouwburg De Kring in Roosendaal, it was Bloem who handed over the first copy of the CD to Willems.

“Interesting chemistry” Remko Willems first met Marion Bloem in September 2014, when he provided the musical accompaniment for the presentation of the author’s latest novel, Lust & liefde (Lust & love). Willems: “My agent, Michèle van Leeuwen, had asked Marion Bloem, of whose work she’s an avid fan, if she perhaps could use a guitarist for this presentation and as it turned out, she agreed to have me do the music. From day one, there was a really good click between us.”

Looking back at this first collaborative effort with the musician, Marion Bloem says: “Among the pieces of

music he played was Perdido [featured on the CD], which I thought sounded very beautiful. I told him that, whereupon he asked me: ‘Can’t we do anything, music-wise, with your poems or texts?’ I was somewhat reluctant at first, as something like this requires more than just a talented musician. It also calls for a solid interaction. In the end, the music must contribute to the text, for the text is paramount. But it immediately went well, which was both good and special.”

Since then, Willems and Bloem have joined forces a couple of times more. Willems: “Last November, for instance, I made music during a presentation she gave in Amsterdam. We also have been on the radio show De Taalstaat [The Language State] by Frits Spits. To filmed footage of paintings of hers, I added background music. I highly enjoyed doing all that.”

Willems hopes he will get the chance to work with Bloem on a theatre show one day. How would Bloem feel about that? “I know he would like that,” she replies, “but I’m currently very busy with the theatre show of my novel debut, Geen gewoon Indisch Meisje, on which my steady guitarist Erwin van Ligten accompanies me, and we intend to continue with that. I’m not unfavourable to creating another theatre show linked to my writing, but no concrete steps in that direction have been undertaken as of yet. Moreover, the question is whether such a show would be feasible at all. But I definitely do like the idea, because Remko is a highly accomplished musician and a joy to work with. He’s well capable of responding to my reading and likewise, I am capable of adjusting my

reading in such a manner that it truly makes sense that he is there. This makes for an interesting chemistry. And it works, I’ve experienced when I performed with him in this manner. So then it becomes fun to do something like that more often.”

Further information: www.gipsymusic.nl www.marionbloem.nl www.muziekschooldestemming.nl (Willems’ music school)

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participates inTelethon Freeway Bike Hike for Asthma in Perth On Sunday 22 March, Bikeweek 2015 ended with the Telethon Freeway Bike Hike for Asthma. Of course, Team Orange participated with an orange peloton of 100 Dutchies to show WA that cycling is not only a sport for men in lycra, but also an easy mode of transport, economically profitable and above all, a lot of fun.

Former Olympian Henk Vogels Sr. also joined Team Orange.

Because of his Dutch roots, he has been cycling since he was a little kid. He participated at the Olympic Games of Tokyo in 1964 on behalf of Australia and received an Order of Australia medal in 2007. His son, Henk Vogels Jr. was present as well (former Australian on road cycling champion and Rabobank cyclist).

After the bike hike, Team Orange gathered for a nice breakfast with broodjes kroket. Are you interested in joining Team Orange in your own city? Keep an eye on the Facebook page of the Consulate-General of the Netherlands in Sydney for future events.

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Forbidden places

by Wil Westerweel

Silent witnesses of the volatility of our existance. That are the photos of often ‘forbidden places’ by Wil Westerweel.

Abandoned cloisters, deserted stations, living rooms without any life. As Wil Westerweer says: “Places where no one is allowed to go, but are too beautiful to just pass by.”

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words Marianne Visser van Klaarwater photos Wil Westerweel

In Gallery SousTerre, where his exibition is on display until 15 May, he shows me a photo, I see a deserted cloister. The filtered sunlight gives it an atmosphere full of mistery and mysticisme.

“Symmetry, staircases, but also the filtered atmosphere or floodlight next to the ‘siltent witnesses’ have my special attention,” Wil says.

Now I understand his love for abandoned buildings. For the visible decline of the earthly existence. The superficiality of life. People disappear, but objects, left over from their existence, stay.

In his daily live Westerweel is an ambulant psychiatric (social) worker.

He calls it: “grateful and captivating work which is basically different every day.”

Wil is a man with depth, as his photos show. Work and hobby influence each other. “Soon I will be 65 and then I will spend my time making Urbex photography.”

Urbex is short for urban and exploration. Wil takes his photos using a Nikon Reflex D300 and a tripod.

“I work with 3HDR (High Dynamic Range). A HDR photo is (usually) not made directly in the camera – it combines multiple exposures to create a high dynamic range.”

He shows me a photo of stairs. I immediately imagine hearing the creaking of the steps. It makes me curious. “The beauty of decline”, as Wil named these photos, makes me realise the volatility of the earthly existance. This stairs revive different memories for Wil. “It was not without risk to enter this place. Bricks could drop down. Entering these locations is often very risky. Once I was chased away by a man with a shotgun, he did not want me on his premises!

Almost all his urbex photos were taken on forbidden places. “If I stuck to the rules, I could not have made most of these photos.”

The next photo shows a table and two chairs in front of a mantelpiece with a porcelain dish on top of it. The precious gem surpises me. Don’t thiefs come in here?

Anyway they never get broken into; the derelict buildings have often been 17

empty for many years, sometimes even 5 till indeed 50 years, when often nature literally takes over. Brambleberries push their way through the living room, sometimes shrubs grow in the middel of a large factory building.

Over the last 5 years Westerweel visited more than 240 locations within the Netherlands and abroad. “Generally I cross the border for this. The last few years I often spent time in Belgium, Germany or Luxembourg, occasionally in Italy, France or Poland, to take the photos.”

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Black is the new orange

of Dutch citizens or organising a cultural event to promote modern art and dance from the Netherlands.

At the moment I am investigating if the Netherlands can count on the support of the Pacific Islands states in its campaign for a seat in the United Nations Security Council. As a country that has always valued international justice and peace, we are a serious candidate for the period of 2017-2018. A seat in the Security Council would provide us with a strong say in international affairs, and we would be more able to make a positive difference in the world.

I can see the world changing rapidly, and western countries are no longer the centre of the world. Europe has become the centre of the world map, but is no longer the centre of the world stage. Closer cooperation with likeminded countries, like New Zealand and Australia, is therefore crucial in my opinion if we are to make a difference today. If we speak with one voice about pressing international issues such as combating terrorism and human rights, we are more likely to be heard, and less likely to be ignored. We might not be the two biggest countries in the world, but New Zealand and the Netherlands share some of the greatest values.

It amazes me that despite the great distance our countries have so much in common. The honest, hard working attitude of the Dutch is also to be found in the Kiwi way of life, perhaps except for the directness of the Dutch. There are always differences of course. Walking to work along the harbour each morning, I cannot help but miss cycling past Utrecht’s canals. But then again, the nature is so beautiful and the people are so friendly here, that I soon forget about CalvÊ pindakaas and Albert Heijn.

I did not know what to expect coming to New Zealand. If I had expected anything however, my experiences here so far would have exceeded all expectations.

Somewhere in late October, on a rainy afternoon in Utrecht, I finally got the news.

I had been accepted for an internship at the Embassy of the Netherlands in New Zealand. I had wanted to do an internship for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for a long time and I had always wanted to visit New Zealand. The internship seemed like the perfect combination of both wishes.

Fast-forward two months.

After 34 hours of airplane seats, the flight hostess from South-China Airlines finally announces in heavily accented English that we have arrived in Auckland.

Before work starts I will have ten days to travel down the north island to Wellington. The volcanic slopes of Mount Ruapehu, the beaches in Coromandel, the forests north of Wanganui; for once, it all does turn out to be as beautiful as in the pictures.

Now half way through my internship I can honestly say that the job does not disappoint in the least. I have noticed how diverse the work at an embassy can be. There is of course the consular work, where my colleagues always try their very best to assist Dutch that have lost passports, laptops or even their nationality. But there are also many other fields in which the embassy is active. It is an organisation that has the interest of New Zealand and the Netherlands at heart. It continuously tries to find business opportunities that are beneficial for both countries and that would support both economies. The visit of Aalt Dijkhuizen, a leading agriexpert, is a good example of this. See the other article in this magazine. Yet we also look for closer cooperation between our countries in the cultural, scientific and political field. Whether it is ensuring the safe repatriation

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De wolf is terug

in Nederland Yolanda Edens is bewust uitgeroeid. Dat had twee oorzaken. In die tijd was hondsdolheid een groot probleem. Er bestond geen vaccin tegen. De ziekte was ook voor mensen gevaarlijk.

Tweede is dat er in die periode nauwelijks wild was in Nederland; alleen voor de zwaar beschermde adellijke jacht waren er wat herten en zwijnen. Zelfs konijnen waren zeldzaam en in particulier bezit. Wolven leefden van muizen en ratten en van afval. Ze kwamen ‘s nachts op de vuilnisbelt bij dorpen. Daar aten ze niet alleen ratten of muizen, maar ook de schapen en kalfjes van mensen.”

De wolf is definitief terug in Nederland. Begin maart werd in en rond de bossen in Drenthe in de buurt van Emmen een wolf gesignaleerd. Enige dagen later dook het dier op in de Groningse plaatsen Kropswolde en Hoogezand. Daar liep de wolf doodgemoedereerd door een woonwijk vlakbij winkels. De gevoelens over de terugkeer van de wolf lopen uiteen.

Een meerderheid van de Nederlanders is verheugd over de terugkeer van de wolf. Het betekent namelijk dat het natuurlijke evenwicht en het oorspronkelijke wildbestand in Nederland zich aan het herstellen is. Ook wordt de terugkeer van dit grote roofdier als bewijs gezien dat we met ons natuurbeleid op de goede weg zijn. Maar er zijn ook andere gevoelens: de wolf wordt ook gezien als een bedreiging voor andere dieren zoals herten en schapen en mensen vragen zich af of het straks nog wel veilig is om de hond uit te laten of hun kinderen in het bos te laten spelen. De huidige generatie kent de wolf als angstaanjagend roofdier uit sprookjes, films of liedjes en heeft het dier in levende lijve alleen in de dierentuin mogen zien. Veilig achter tralies en dat versterkt het gevoel dat het hier gaat om een zeer gevaarlijk roofdier.

Daarom is het belangrijk dat er duidelijkheid komt over de fabels en de feiten over de wolf.

Wolven en mensen Door eeuwen lange vervolging heeft de wolf geleerd de mens te mijden. Om risico’s te vermijden zal hij meestal proberen te vluchten voor mensen. Wanneer een wolf in het nauw gedreven wordt kan hij aanvallen om zichzelf te redden. Ook als een herder een wolf aanvalt om zijn schapen te beschermen, kan deze zichzelf verdedigen met alle risico’s van dien. In middeleeuws Europa was dit een groot risico, vooral ook omdat veelal jonge kinderen er met de schaapskudde op uit gestuurd werden.

Tegenwoordig zijn er in Europa nauwelijks meer herders en zitten jonge kinderen op school. Een andere reden voor wolven om mensen aan te vallen is het voeren van wolven door mensen. Uit Amerika is bekend dat wolven daarvan na verloop van tijd zo opdringerig kunnen worden dat ze mensen lastig gingen vallen. Uiteindelijk moesten in Amerika deze opdringerige dieren gedood worden om grotere problemen te voorkomen.

Waarom is de wolf ooit weggegaan?

Woordvoerder Leo Linnartz van de organisatie “Wolven in Nederland” legt uit waarom de wolf ooit verdwenen is uit Nederland. “De wolf werd in Nederland bestreden en 20

het is belangrijk dat er duidelijkheid komt over de fabels en de feiten over de wolf.

Aanvallen door wolven op mensen komen tegenwoordig nauwelijks meer voor. Tijdens de laatste 50 jaar van de vorige eeuw zijn er in Amerika, Europa en Rusland slechts 17 slachtoffers gevallen, waarvan de helft betrekking had op hondsdolheid dat toen nog heerste. Er is een afname van het totaal aantal wolvenaanvallen over de afgelopen eeuwen waar te nemen.

Tegelijk gaan jaarlijks honderdduizenden Nederlanders op vakantie naar gebieden waar wolven leven. Zonder er erg in te hebben maken ze midden in een wolventerritorium lange wandelingen of rusten lekker uit. Niets merkend van zijn aanwezigheid. Vele Europeanen tonen al eeuwen aan dat je heel goed kunt samenleven met de wolf. En de kans dat je hem in zijn leefgebied uiteindelijk werkelijk te zien krijgt is heel erg klein.

hij kan gemakkelijk jongen krijgen en hoeft niet voor veel overlast te zorgen. Grote delen van onder andere Drenthe, Limburg, Gelderland of Brabant wijken niet erg af van de Duitse regio Lausitz, waar de meeste Duitse wolven leven. Wolven mijden het cultuurlandschap niet en laten zich vooral leiden door het voorkomen van prooidieren, zoals ree, damhert, edelhert en wild zwijn.

De eerste is in heel Nederland talrijk en de anderen zijn in ieder geval regionaal aanwezig, zodat wat prooi betreft er weinig beperkingen zijn aan het voorkomen van wolven in Nederland. Wolven kunnen dus prima in Nederland overleven.

Inmiddels zitten vijf roedels op de Lüneburger Heide. Er zitten er zes op een afstand van 150 tot 200 kilometer van de Nederlandse grens. Niet alle wolven zullen de afstand van 200 kilometer afleggen, maar er zijn wolven die wel meer dan 1000 kilometer lopen, 2000 kan zelfs ook.

“Wolven worden geboren in een roedel. Dan zitten ze bij pa en ma en een heleboel broertjes en zusjes. Maar als ze groot worden gaan ze puberen en dan hebben ze het, net als mensenpubers, wel gehad thuis. Ze doen hun eigen ding en trekken de wijde wereld in op zoek naar een eigen territorium en een partner. Dat weggaan en zoeken doen ze in hun uppie.”

Terugkeer van de wolf De laatste keer dat een wolf in Nederland was gezien, was in 1897. Pas in 1989 kwam de wolf voor het eerst weer in Duitsland vanuit het oosten binnengewandeld. Hij heeft er zich gevestigd en mogelijk al jongen voortgebracht in 1991. Eind negentiger jaren kon worden aangenomen dat in Duitsland een duurzame vestiging had plaatsgevonden.

In 2000 werden met zekerheid de eerste jonge wolven vastgesteld. Precieze gegevens over aantallen zijn vrijwel onmogelijk te geven. Bovendien worden soms wolven illegaal afgeschoten en vinden dieren de dood in het verkeer. De huidige totale populatie in Duitsland omvat waarschijnlijk zo’n 50 tot 100 dieren.

Voor de wolf zijn de omstandigheden gunstig om terug te keren naar Nederland. Er is overal voedsel,

Nederlandse wolf De Nederlandse wolf dook op 7 maart op in de buurt van Emmen. Een paar dagen later keerde ze terug naar Duitsland. Op 13 maart werd ze voor het laatst gezien in de buurt van de Noord-Duitse stad Oldenburg. Inmiddels hebben de provincies Groningen en Drenthe bekend 21

De wolf maar ook de beer en de lynx zijn bezig aan een comeback in West-Europa.

Ook in Nederland worden na een eeuw afwezigheid weer lynxen waargenomen en ook de beer wordt binnenkort verwacht.

Uit ervaringen elders blijkt dat de terugkeer van grote roofdieren vaak specifieke vragen opwerpt, die niet alleen betrekking hebben op de effectieve bescherming van grensoverschrijdende roofdierpopulaties, maar ook op gevolgen voor met name veeteelt, menselijke veiligheid, natuurbeheer en (niet onbelangrijk) gevoelens die over deze onderwerpen in de maatschappij leven. Het is dan ook te verwachten dat de Nederlandse discussie over wolf en lynx de komende tijd zal versterken. Deze discussie zal waarschijnlijk gevoed worden door een mengeling aan feiten, meningen en emoties.

Vanuit dit perspectief hebben Mr. Dr. A. Trouwhorst en Prof. Mr. C.J. Bastmeijer ervoor gekozen de juridische kaders – internationaal, Europees en nationaal – zo scherp mogelijk in beeld te brengen. Dit om een zinvol debat te faciliteren. Zo wordt helderheid verschaft over de bandbreedte waarbinnen het overheidsbeleid ten aanzien van lynx en wolf gestalte kan krijgen. De nadruk ligt hierbij op de soortenbescherming. De rol van het gebiedsbeschermingsrecht in verband met grote roofdieren komt in een toekomstige publicatie aan de orde. Nederland heeft de conventie van Bern ondertekend en verder is de wolf beschermd volgens de EU vogel- en habitatrichtlijn. Net als de meeste wilde dieren is hij in Nederland wettelijk beschermd en mag er niet op gejaagd worden sinds 25 juni 2014 staat de wolf bovendien op de lijst van beschermde inheemse soorten.

photo Bernard Landgraf

photo Tim Strater

die de schapen hadden. Vanwege de wonden hielden de autoriteiten er een tijdje rekening mee dat het eigenlijk om een grote hond ging. “Bij elke claim van wolvenspotters ontbrak in Nederland tot nu toe overtuigend bewijsmateriaal”, zegt Linnartz. “Het is de eerste keer in honderd jaar dat een levende wolf in Nederland gezien is en dat er goed bewijsmateriaal van is.” Linnartz vermoedt dat het dier is opgegroeid in een gebied waar weinig mensen wonen. “Wolven die beschoten zijn geweest geven aan hun jongen door dat ze moeten oppassen voor ‘tweebenigen’. Maar in Zweden bijvoorbeeld is niet-schuw gedrag onder wolven gebruikelijker omdat ze daar veel minder mensen tegen komen.”

Om Nederland voor te bereiden op de verwachte komst van wolven naar ons land is een aantal Nederlandse natuurbeschermingsorganisaties verenigd in de organisatie “Wolven in Nederland”. Door middel van lezingen en het geven van voorlichting, bijvoorbeeld over hoe boeren hun vee kunnen beschermen, proberen zij meer draagvlak te creëren voor de wolf. Zo willen zij er voor zorgen dat eventuele schade beperkt blijft en wolven niet alleen welkom zijn in de natuur, maar ook in de hoofden en harten van mensen in Nederland.

gemaakt dat ‘hun wolf’ in het voorjaar van 2014 geboren is in een roedel wilde wolven in de omgeving van de Duitse steden Hamburg en Bremen. Het gaat hier dus ook om zo’n jonge wolf, op zoek naar zijn eigen plek.

Deze constatering is gedaan door onderzoekers die bij gedode en gewonde schapen DNA-materiaal van de wolf hebben gevonden. Dat hebben ze vergeleken met de databank van wolven in Duitsland. Omdat ze jong en onervaren was, wist ze nog niet goed hoe ze moest jagen. Dat verklaart de ongebruikelijke verwondingen

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KAASkoppen discusses actual affairs that keep the Nederlanders busy

a glance at the current Netherlands

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Terror Eagle Owl

words Yolanda Edens

Lately, animals have been the centre of attention in the Netherlands. After the commotion about the return of the wolf and all the trouble to ban the stories about the ‘Big Bad Wolf’, an eagle owl turned up who attacked people. The owl soon was nicknamed ‘terror owl’. The large owl has, at intervals, attacked about fifty times and was especially targetting women. The victims injuries were cuts, scratches and bumps. A few runners who were attacked had to go to hospital.

The eagle owl frightened people too. People were too afraid to go outside and football practices in the area of the owls roosting place were cancelled. The council advised people to bring an umbrella when walking down the street, an advice that became world news. Because the eagle owl is a protected animal, the owl could initially not be captured. But when the attacks became more aggresive, the procedure to hand out a permit was hastened and 23

a falconer was employed to capture the animal. This has been done now and the terror owl is safely placed in a sanctuary.

Almost at the same time that the terrow owl was captured, in the Gelderlands town of Noordeinde another eagle owl emerged. Contrary to the terror owl this owl seemed very friendly. Instead of attacking people the owl enjoyed sitting on people’s head and cuddle their hair with his beak. People especially came to the village to make a photo with the cuddly-eagle owl, as the bird soon was nicknamed, on their head. Because generally eagle owls are very shy the Eagle Owl Study Group Nederland presumes that the animal has escaped captivity. The shire of Oldebroek, Noordeinde is part of this shire, has issued a ‘bird alert’, hoping the owner will come forward.

Of course we wait in anticipation for the first cuddly-wolf, to snuggle up to and hug.

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He Name: Ben Smit Age: 33 Nationality: Dutch In Australia since: March 2013 Profession: Aquaculture and fisheries specialist and also a background in the financial industry (currently looking for a job in Queensland)

Ben and Britt and twins Relationship since: September 2012 How they’ve met: in Singapore, during a night out with work friends Living in: Myrtleford, Victoria Spoken language at home: Dutch and English Children: twin daughters Lucy and Sophie (16 months)

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Two cultures in one household…

Ben and Britt

Flying start In Dutch we would call it a vliegende start (a flying start), because shortly after Ben and Britt met for the first time their lives changed dramatically. From a work hard play hard life in Singapore, to raising twins in rural Victoria.

“Three years ago, I was working in Singapore when I met Britt,” Ben explains. She’d been living there for thirteen years; he had just arrived a few months before. One night, they both went out with work friends and ended up in the same group. “Somehow, the discussion was about children and Britt joked to me: ‘I’m sure we would make beautiful kids together.’ Since that night, we’ve been a couple.”

Only two months later, they decided to move to Australia and both quit their jobs in Singapore. Ben: “I went back to the Netherlands to arrange everything and moved to Australia in March 2013. The following month we found out that Britt was pregnant with twins!”

The flying start continues. In July that year they visited the Netherlands, so Ben could introduce Britt to his friends and family, on December 16 they got married and three days later their twin daughters Lucy and Sophie were born. Ben: “Four weeks early, but healthy and well.”

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words Rachel Morssink

She Name: Britt SmitKneebone Age: 40 Nationality: Australian Profession: full time mom at the moment, but she has a background in sports and recreation management

op 1 kussen…

photo: left to right Sophie, Ben, Britt and Lucy

How’s life at the moment?

Ben: “Life is still very busy with the twins, but we get a lot of help from Britt’s parents, which is great. We’ve decided to stay in Australia for the next fifteen or twenty years and we’re still building up our life here.”

Britt: “We survived the flying start because we’ve been discussing issues very openly since the beginning of our relationship, things other couples wouldn’t talk about so soon.”

never regret leaving behind everything in the Netherlands for her.”

Britt: “Ben is very kind, thoughtful and caring and he has a good sense of humour. He gets the Australian sense of humour very well, but he tells jokes with a straight face, which confuses people. However, with him: everything is a joke. Furthermore, he likes sharing knowledge, is very direct and also creative, he remakes furniture, for example.”

What did you have to get used to the most?

Ben: “Being a father. And the fact that it made my decision to come to Australia more definite. I’ve travelled and lived abroad a lot, but I always could come back to the Netherlands. That feels different now. I had a good job in the Netherlands and in Singapore, but here it has been a bit of a drama. I recently obtained permanent residency, which was quite a long process. In the meantime, I’ve been working in a timber factory. It isn’t ideal, but my family comes number one now.”

Let’s talk about culture; what is typical Dutch or Australian about the other?

Ben: “Britt’s accent, haha. But other than that I don’t see many differences between us.”

Britt: “We were living worlds apart, but our upbringing has been very similar.”

Ben: “We share the same values, almost as if we grew up closely together.”

Britt: “When I met Ben’s parents we got along very well. It felt so familiar, I felt at home.”

How would you describe your partner?

Ben: “Britt is a smart, sweet and patient woman. She is very strong and my tower of strength when I need it. She is the first woman who could tame me and that says a lot! I consider myself really happy that I’ve met her and I

What do you find striking about the culture of your partner?

Ben: “The fact that Aussies bring their own booze to parties is very strange to me. If I throw a party I make sure I buy enough drinks for everyone, but then the 25

What do you fight about most?

Ben: “Britt likes to take five or six showers a day and that’s nonsense to me. One time is enough I think, but in Australia many people tend to take several showers a day.

Very funny, until you see the water bill.”

photo Noa

Who is usually right?

Ben: “Me!” Britt: “Me, but he thinks he is.”

Ben: “We don’t fight that much, but I’m a bit more stubborn. I often think that I’m right and when I am certain about it, I definitely want to win the argument. If Britt feels she is right, she doesn’t need to out-argue me back.”

Britt: “I let him go, I laugh about it. He finds it harder to say: sorry, you were right.”

guests bring in more. So with some people I’ve made the deal that from now on the host provides the drinks.”

Britt: “For me it is also strange to be back in Australia after thirteen years in Singapore. Things have changed.

Sometimes, if Ben ask me why something is organised in a certain way, I don’t know the answer, because it’s new to me too.”

Ben: “Another thing that strikes me is that people leave the doors of their house open here. I cannot get used to it; I always lock them. People still trust each other here in small villages.”

What do you miss from the Netherlands, Ben? Ben: “I miss friends, family and cheese. We have such a wide variety of cheeses in the Netherlands. And there’s nothing like the HEMA rookworst. But we have a lot of good stuff here as well.”

What is difficult for a Dutchie down under?

Ben: “People are more open and friendly here, but also less direct. They are very polite, but sometimes you don’t know what they think for real. And everyone walks around barefoot, children too. As a biologist, I’m aware of the potential dangerous wildlife, which is abundant here. Other people are more relaxed than I am, and everything goes well up till now, so maybe I’m just being overprotective.”

What surprised you positively in the other’s culture?

Ben: “People are very helpful. When the twins were born, all of a sudden we had five grandmas in the house, all friends of my mother in law. They were not just visiting to see the babies, but doing laundry and cleaning, for example. During the first two months in Australia we lived with Britt’s parents. We now have our own place nearby, but we couldn’t have done it without their help. They are fantastic people.”

Britt: “When I visited the Netherlands, everyone was so friendly and helpful. And everyone speaks English over there! Very funny: everything is so close by: even the next town is only seconds away. And I love the fact that everyone is cycling. I’m a bike rider myself and the roads over there accommodated it. In traffic, people are very courteous towards each other, not like in Australia or Singapore.”

Ben: “Also: the hospitality. People are so generous and open in Australia. When my parents visited us in February, we could use a house in Mornington Peninsula of friends of friends for a week. I’d never met these people and yet they lend us their house!”

Dutch and English at home?

Ben: “Yes, we like to raise the girls bilingually, so I speak only Dutch to them. We FaceTime a lot with my parents and they talk Dutch to the children as well. Not that Sophie and Lucy speak that much yet, that takes a bit longer with bilingual children apparently, but they understand both languages. They respond to ‘ga zitten’ as well as to ‘please, sit down’.

Britt: “I want them to learn Dutch, so they can speak with their cousins or maybe live in the Netherlands one day. And I’m slowly learning Dutch as well, but the pronunciation is difficult.”

Ben: “The first words of the twins? After ‘mama’ and ‘papa’ it was ‘ball’ or ‘bal’, very neutral, haha.”

Is there a difference of opinion when it comes to the upbringing of the twins?

Ben: “No, I think we draw one line.”

Britt: “I thought I was strict, but he is it even more.”

Ben: “I think: if we’re strict now, we will benefit later.

So, if the girls are not allowed to touch the window, they can’t do it five minutes later either. I like to be very consistent. Britt is a bit sweeter.”

Who cooks dinner and what’s on the table?

Ben: “I cook every day while Britt takes care of the girls.

I prepare all kinds of food, it’s a real mix: pizza, noodles, roti. Not really one style, but multicultural.

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Britt: “He tends to cook more Asian and he likes experimenting; he will always try a new twist. Next to that, Ben loves the barbecue: steaks and roast. For the first six months, he tried our new BBQ almost every day.”

Ben: “I think once a month, I’ll cook a typical Dutch dish if I find witlof, endive or kale in the store.”

Britt: “Endive with gravy, the girls love it.”

Ben: “They eat everything, very easy.”

Britt: “Ben’s apple pie is also amazing. When it comes out of the oven, the crust is delicious: crispy and warm. He plays with the recipe; sultanas, cream, it’s never the same pie. My father has diabetes and for his birthday, Ben made an apple pie with stevia instead of sugar. He is very good in the kitchen, but he leaves a big mess afterwards!”

How do you celebrate birthdays and holidays?

Ben: “Birthdays are the same as in Holland for us. The only difference is that people need to travel from far here, so usually there are less guests, but they stay longer and join for dinner as well.”

Britt: “I want the girls to embrace the Dutch culture. I think it is important; it is part of where they come from. I ask Ben’s mom a lot, for example how to celebrate Sinterklaas, birthdays or other traditions. She tells me more than Ben does, haha.”

Ben: “With Sinterklaas, I’ve introduced the game with the dice here for the adults (dobbelspel), it was a great success. Everyone bought a few small gifts for ten dollar in total. The dice tells you whether you need to swap, steel, keep or unwrap a gift.”

Who has adjusted most to the culture of the other?

Britt: “I’m not sure if I’ve taken over habits from him. If I have become more direct? Not to other people, but for sure towards him.”

Ben: “That will be me, but that’s hard to avoid. It would be a bit arrogant if I would expect a whole country to adjust to me. I like discovering a new country. I will probably always be more direct than Aussies, but maybe I learn to deal with it differently.”

Britt: “I have a lot of respect for him for choosing to leave the Netherlands behind. After living overseas for thirteen years, I understand that it’s not always easy. I could always decide to come back, but for him it’s more difficult now. We’re pretty settled here, but missing people is always there. His grandmother passed away recently, which is hard if you live so far away. In his field of work, Australia offers a lot of opportunities. Now his visa has been approved, I hope he finds his dream job soon. It has been a big two years of adjustments for us: we had a flying start, jumps and hurdles, but now we are ready for our next move as a family.

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Wartime Cookbooks

words Paola Westbeek

Cookbooks are a direct reflection of the times and of society. If we take a look at the last thirty years, we see that the market for diet and health cookbooks has been huge and is only getting bigger by the day. While in the early 1980s it was all about extreme calorie restriction with trends such as the Scarsdale Diet or Slim Fast shakes and ‘sensible’ meal plans, in the late 80s it was Atkins with his love for high fat that was raking in the big bucks. Not much later, however, we were advised the opposite. Throughout the 90s, fat was the enemy. If you wanted to be thin, beautiful and healthy, there were plenty of books on the market with low-fat, carbohydrate-rich recipes. Today, organic, paleo, vegan and ‘clean’ eating are the current eating and cooking trends. Just walk into the cookbook section of any bookstore and you’ll see what I mean.

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Book publishers, of course, thrive on following trends and keeping on top of the times. You may be surprised to learn that even during the war, cookbooks appeared on the Dutch market (and most likely elsewhere, too). A preposterous thought when you consider the food shortages and hunger that came with the German invasion, yet between 1940 and 1945, fifty-three cookbooks were published in the Netherlands. Initially, the recipes and cooking guidelines do not really anticipate the gravity of the situation, but by 1944-45, it wasn’t so much about eating well anymore as it was about staying alive.

One of the first cookbooks published during the war was Hoe moet ik zuinig koken in crisistijd (How Can I Cook Economically in Time of Crisis). The recipes in the book, though simple, still sound appetising.

Unfortunately, just a few months after its publication in 1940, many of the ingredients used were either scarce or no longer available. Another early cookbook, also published in 1940, was Oorlogskookboek (Wartime Cookbook) by A. Geurts. The tone, recipes and even the book’s design are still optimistic here as well. In both books, ingredients such as meat and eggs are still used.

Slowly but surely, though, things like scrambled eggs, steak, macaroni and cheese, and chocolate pudding made way for recipes that were based on replacements. How can you make a gehaktbal (meatball) with shrimp, for example? Or how can you make mock cutlets from cheese or oatmeal?

Beans proved to be an excellent substitute for just about anything, from minced meat to fillings for

kroketten (ragout-filled, deep-fried snacks) and even the almond paste used in baked goods. With enough sugar and cheaply produced essence of almond, white beans would make a pretty decent replacement for the amandelspijs used to fill gevulde koeken (almond paste filled cookies) and amandelstaaf (almond filled pastry log). Coffee was made with acorns, chicory root and barley.

Some of the replacements may sound completely odd today. Take Ria Schute’s use of buttermilk as a replacement for mayonnaise in her 1942 cookbook, Haal het onderste uit de pan (liberally translated as, Make the Most of What You Have). In her recipe she tells us to use a few drops of “boterkleursel”(butter food colouring) to make the finished product look almost like the real deal.

From the very beginning, most wartime cookbook authors warned readers about the possible food shortages and advised them to be open-minded when trying food replacements. In C.H.A. ScholteHoek’s Kookkunst voor den distributietijd en ten deele... voor altijd (The Art of Cooking During Rationing Times and Partially...for All Times), dated 1940, we read the following: “Heb geen vooroordeel tegen voedingsmiddelen, die ge nooit te voren proefde, of tegen bereidingswijzen, die ge zelf nooit toepaste, doch tegen combinaties die ge nooit eerder at. Wees nu in dat opzicht eens geen echt Hollander, doch eet al wat u wordt voorgezet (...).” [“Do not pass judgement against foods that you’ve never tried, or against preparation methods that you’ve never used, or against combinations that Hongertocht 1944 - Nationaal Archief

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of the country), but indeed there were. In 1945, the Amsterdam Local Commission on Domestic and Family Education published a handy book called Het gebruik van tulpenbollen (The Use of Tulip Bulbs).

It featured all kinds of recipes using one of the few ingredients left to feed the starving nation. During the infamous Hunger Winter of 1944-45, tulip bulbbased meals were even served at the Bijenkorf in Amsterdam. The Dutch department store also did their share by distributing recipes for tulip bulbs amongst their personnel.

These wartime cookbooks, especially the ones published during the final years, were sparse and affordable (some were distributed for free).

Unlike the cookbooks brought out on the market today, they were not exactly meant for gourmands seeking out the pleasures of cooking and eating a fancy meal, nor for those eager to follow the latest fad diet. Instead, these cookbooks were made for housewives who wanted to make the best of what was available and keep their family healthy, alive.

How times have changed.

you’ve never eaten. Do not be, in that sense, a real Dutchman, but eat everything that’s put in front of you (...)”]. As the war progressed, a statement such as this one would have certainly been superfluous.

Food was food, and everyone was happy with whatever they could get.

Another important common factor found in most cookbooks published during the war were the many tips on how to eat and cook wisely while at the same time economising. In Mia de Kok’s Koken...nu!

Recepten voor distributie- en oorlogstijd (Cooking...

Now! Recipes for Rationing Time and Wartime), dated 1942, there is even a whole chapter dedicated to cooking economically. Many books tell us about the advantages of using the so-called ‘hooikist’ a small chest filled with hay that served as a mock oven. Once food was brought to the boil on the stove, it would be put into the chest for a few hours where it would continue to cook most economically.

You would think that there would be no cookbooks on the market during the final months of the war when there was bitter hunger (especially in the west

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Dutch/Flemish movies

L’il Quinquin This issue we have L’il Quinquin, the latest work from Flanders-based director Bruno Dumont. A flick through some of this magazine’s back issues will reveal reviews of a few more of his films, and the common thread that will emerge from those is that his work is always worth seeking out. L’il Quinquin was originally conceived (and played) as a TV miniseries, but it has also enjoyed some big screen outings including festival appearances at Cannes, London and Toronto.

The film is surprising in that it appears to be a comedy, a genre that no-one in the right mind would normally associate with Dumont; his past films largely consist of essaying the animal-like nature of man and the brute forces that dictate our lives, with a splash of vague spirituality thrown in for good measure.

However, look beyond the genre and we’re definitely in Dumont’s world: the flat, coastal setting; the detective investigating a grisly murder; the unpleasant, casually racist youths; performers who seem to have been cast chiefly for their grotesque appearance; the enveloping, suffocating, unseen evil.

Anyone coming to this who knows Dumont’s previous work will be astonished by both the manner in which L’il Quinquin sees Dumont parody/critique himself and the way it plays like a semi-comic reworking of his earlier Humanity, a film that also featured a remarkably oddball policeman working on a murder case. In L’il Quinquin the protagonist is Commander Van der Weyden, who’s investigating a bizarre 31

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murder in which a woman’s headless corpse is found stuffed inside a dead cow. As he and his rather hapless, thrill-seeking sidekick blunder through their task, a group of mainly horrible children -- headed by the Quinquin of the title -- are never far away. The truculent Quinquin and the eccentric, tic-laden Van der Weyden clash repeatedly, although the sullen youth does eventually prove to be of some worth as the body count rises.

Without spoiling too much, those familiar with Dumont are likely to twig quite early on that this mystery is one that we’re not really going to get to the bottom of, but the journey is an absorbing and entertaining one. There are some fine laughs to be had along the way, but during the final episode there’s a very real sense of the evil that’s swirling round the community - and the seeming futility in fighting such a force.

L’il Quinquin is among my three favourite films of last year, and before we go there’s just time to mention another - Life of Riley, which those fine folks at Eureka Entertainment are putting out in a nice Blu-ray/DVD double pack. It’s out in May, and you can read more about it at eurekavideo.co.uk.

DAI FORTERRE working on a sustainable global environment

An Amsterdammer with French roots, who studied in the Netherlands, Canada, the USA and England and was responsible for initiating several research projects with Cambridge and MIT University. After a career that -so far- took him to Costa Rica, Denver, Japan, Brussels and New York.

He currently resides in Melbourne with his Australian wife and children: Dai Forterre has an extensive professional resume with a strong focus on Industrial Sustainability in particular in the global Textile industry.

Looking at Dai’s experiences it was not totally unexpected that he was asked by Teun van de Keuken, a leading Dutch author, entrepreneur, journalist and television producer in the Green and (un)Sustainable space, to join forces in making a documentary. The end result was ‘The battle of the textile industry’ broadcasted earlier this year by the Netherlands Public Broadcaster NPO (VPRO). http://www.npo.nl/de-slag-om-de-klerewereld/POMS_S_VPRO_740241

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Nowadays sustainability appears to be a highly relevant topic on business’ agendas. So it is about time to ask Dai some questions on this interesting subject.

How did you first get in contact with sustainability in the textile industry?

Earlier in my career I worked as a civil servant and later in the corporate sector in the Netherlands and gradually internationally on development and sustainability related projects.

Can you give an example of such a project?

One of the most interesting earlier projects was the development of an online form for fair-trade coffee, fruit and other products. I was fortunate to collaborate with local farm cooperatives, businesses, ministries and the Dutch Embassy in Costa Rica. The project was jointly set up by the Netherlands ministries of Environment and Foreign Affairs, Costa Rican governmental agencies and businesses in both countries and is an example of how governments can become more active in creating new economic and political connections through publicprivate partnerships.

It is not only the Netherlands which is actively enabling these projects. Also the Swiss, Danish and Germans are leaders in this topic. Australian governments seem less inclined to take such an active enabling role.

Why is sustainability becoming such a relevant topic?

Consumers are getting more and more aware and vocal, partly through social media. They become more conscious about the issues around the sustainability of products and produce and other related topics. Through their access to different sources of news, expertise and information they get a better understanding how their

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role?

Initially we managed the labour conditions at our suppliers in the EU and beyond (Africa, Middle-East and Asia), whilst increasingly focussing on the environmental characteristics of the products. We also monitored and managed the environmental impacts and social contributions of our products and our company. Whereas the initial focus was on risk prevention, consumer safety and managing our reputation, it eventually became about ‘how to position our company and brand as being a world leader in the space of corporate transparency, community responsibility, wellness and health’.

food is produced, processed and transported, how a pair of pants is made and what happens to their household waste. In short, consumers suddenly have easy virtual access on topics they want to know more about. This makes it possible for them to create their own opinion on sustainability related matters and subsequently act.

Also, governments give businesses more legislative freedom, because they seem to lean to a free market based approach to environmental, social and economic regulation expecting business to regulate itself which has driven the need for initially Corporate Social Responsibility and later Sustainability thinking.

Furthermore, dominant free market approach makes free trade across borders around the world easier, which leads not only to more price-driven competition, but at times also to increasing risks.

Although companies are more vulnerable due to geographic spread of suppliers around the world a significant percentage of them are more focused on costs and will only buy from the cheapest suppliers.

Also the turnover of products has strongly increased and companies are at the same time, due to changing and accelerating consumer demands, facing consistent volatility in raw material prices and energy prices. There is also a growing concern by consumers regarding the impact of pollution and chemicals, on health and welfare, but also the risks involved with weak governments and regulatory enforcement in some parts of the supply chain.

What changes have you seen within ASICS since, relating to sustainable production and what exactly is the role in society of a company as ASICS? Obviously, I no longer work for ASICS, so I can’t really speak for the organisation. However, if I am to give my personal opinion, I believe that many clothing companies are showing an increasing awareness of the approaching revolution in production or better manufacturing. We are currently experiencing new digital manufacturing technology, yet we also see an increase in companies becoming more vulnerable because price volatility in raw materials such as oil and cotton.

Also, we can no longer ignore work condition issues.

Where many leading textile companies are combining innovative product design with new more efficient and environmentally benign manufacturing practices, other companies tend to stick with the old-school approach of buying low and selling high disregarding changing needs and opportunities around recycling, reuse and transparency.

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Moreover, an increasing number of business people fortunately see social entrepreneurship as a new avenue to create opportunities.

When it comes to obesity, societal challenges around loneliness, disenfranchised minority groups, and the emancipation of women, in particular savvy sporting goods brands, retailers and food companies will use many of these issues to strengthen their organisation and market their brand.

It has been almost two years since you were asked by Teun van de Keuken to work with him on his documentary. This documentary focuses on the supply chain of the fashion industry and more important on some of the challenging conditions workers face. Because of cheap labour and the conditions those clothing makers experience we can buy a 10 dollar t-shirt or a 200 dollar design jeans (design jeans or not, apparently sometimes all made by the same people and produced under the same terrible conditions).

Could you explain the supply chain of the fashion industry?

This supply chain consists of lots of different interconnected and incremental stages, with retailers and big brands as the main buyers.

What stages does this supply chain comprise and what, in your opinion, should change in order to increase the sustainability of products?

The whole supply chain starts with the harvest and processing of raw materials such as cotton and wool. When it comes to sustainability some issues in these chains are already noticeable. We have seen similar issues already in the palm oil and agriculture industry with the former negatively impacting on rainforests and local communities. This chain is also under pressure when it comes to low pay and poor enforcement of labour and environmental regulation, which kind of compounds the poor working and environmental conditions.

After processing the raw materials, which consumes lots of water and chemicals, the next stage commences: producing base-materials. Many things could go wrong within this stage when it comes to sustainability. Think about the colouring or bleaching of fabric.

Next we move to the stage of the process of making the clothes. Sometimes the chain will be carved up as part of the production, for instance in the production of footwear when the shoe soles are made in a different factory. The shoe manufacturer outsources the making of footwear components, but will be responsible as the endsupplier of shoes to the agent or final buyer.

The Netherlands have a strong position in the world, for five different reasons: we have strong capabilities in environmental technology building upon our water management background and strong education systems, we have a strong collaborative culture aimed at forging consensus. Further, we are open-minded when it comes to new ideas, we are internationally orientated and we have a strong creative industry. Last and not less important, many leading international companies have their head office or European chair in the Netherlands.

Unfortunately, we are less focussed on manufacturing products or designing manufacturing technologies than, for example, the Swiss, Germans, Swedes, Brits and Danish. This is why they have achieved a more prominent role in technological and sustainable innovation globally.

It also seems that we lack ambition when it concerns renewable energy which might also limit our potential as a sustainability leader.

What is the position of the Netherlands when it comes to sustainability?

And what if you compare Australia to the Netherlands?

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Where do you think sustainability will be in10 years’ time?

I think sustainability will be integrated in most companies who pursue quality, relevance and innovation. Companies who only compete on the basis of price will eventually not survive. After all, it is the consumer who has the last word and only responsive, robust and resilient companies will survive in an ultra-competitive environment.

And in general, how can companies become more sustainable?

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Most Dutch don’t know about this diarist who was a schoolmaster by name of David Beck.

Who was David Beck?

David Beck was born in Cologne in 1594 and he died in Arnhem in 1634, a year after Samuel Pepys’ year of birth.

Beck had migrated to The Hague where he founded a school for the children of wealthy families on Hoogstraat in 1617. At that time, The Hague was a moderately sized town with some 18,000 citizens. Because it was the royal residence, many wealthy people lived in close proximity to each other. It was not only home to the Court of Maurits van Oranje, but also to King Frederick of Bohemia and his English wife Elizabeth Stuart, who had kept an impressive court here since their exile in 1624. All this wealth had a major impact on the people of the town and its culture.

Roeltje and Roos Three weeks after the death of his beloved wife Roeltje van Belle, David Beck started a diary. Like many of his contemporaries he was a keen poet, musician and draughtsman, and an enthusiastic walker. Although he missed his wife, he soon turned his amorous attention to other women. One of them was Roos, who lived in a house called ‘de Lelie’ on a square known as ‘Plaats’. This square is still there. Beck often ‘happened’ to wander by her house for several months. When he finally proposed to Roos in October 1624, she rejected him, and he left The Hague shortly afterwards. He moved to Arnhem where he died ten years later.

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The Plague 1624 was a disastrous year, also because many died of the plague. 400 people in Delft had died in just one week.

People called the plague ‘God’s gift’ ironically. It was seen as a punishment for the sins of the people. Like many others Beck must have wondered what sins had caused this punishment. No wonder that he was studying the book of the prophet Ezekiel that Sunday. In this passage a jealous God takes revenge on an unfaithful Jerusalem and its sinful people.

Huygens and Cats Most of the streets that Beck mentions in his diary are still there today, in the twenty-first century, almost 400 years later. It’s amazing that you could follow the schoolmaster in his footsteps. So much is still the same.

Beck happened to meet the celebrities of his day (like Constantijn Huygens and Jacob Cats), and it’s not unlikely that you meet the famous people of today like prime minister Rutte and King Willem Alexander. Anyway, here is the entry from the diary of David Beck of Sunday, 28 July 1624.

A Day in the Life “Moderately cool but pleasant weather, with no sunshine until three o’clock in the afternoon, and later a threatened rain shower that simply passed through. I was at the monastery chapel with my dear friend Herman Breckerfelt this morning to listen to minister Roseus’ sermon on Luke 3:1. I became unwell during the sermon.

We went straight home and once Breckerfelt had treated me to cake, he went home and I to my office, where I read Ezekiel chapters nine to thirty-three in the French bible before and after lunch and in the afternoon.

I was at the Great Church (Grote Kerk) in the afternoon for La Motte’s sermon on questions 33 and 34 of the

Catechism. When I left the church I took a turn around The Hague, went home at four o’clock, read the Bible in my office and did some sketches at school. I spoke to Breckerfelt’s brother-in-law Herman, who had come from Delft that afternoon, and said he planned to leave in an hour or two. Perhaps I would like to write a note for him to take to his brother Hendrick? Received a note from Jacob Henrici of Amsterdam, with five thousand pens.

‘God’s gift’ At six o’clock I walked to Roeltje’s mother’s house, where I rested for an hour and talked about all kinds of things with her and sheriff Cinq. At seven o’clock the sheriff and I walked along Spuistraat, along Poten, Houtstraat, Plantage and back into The Hague along Voorhout (where I encountered messieurs Jacob Cats and Constantijn Huygens), past Roos at ‘de Lelie’ on Plaats square, and so I brought him back to Roeltje’s mother’s house, took my leave of her at eight o’clock and went back to Breckerfelt’s, where I stayed for supper.

And when after supper we had sung the second psalm with them, I left and walked in the moonlight along Voorhout and from there along Kneuterdijk and Vijverberg, and again onto Voorhout, past Roos at ‘de Lelie’ and went home, where I arrived at half past ten, and went straight to bed. This afternoon Mr Van Veenhuijsen’s wife was buried here. She died suddenly this week, they say of a hot fever, though there is a rumour that she had ‘God’s gift’.”

[Diary entry freely translated (thank you, Sue McDonell) and interpreted (by me, Ruud Hisgen); David Beck, ‘Spiegel van mijn leven; een Haags dagboek uit 1624’ (‘David Beck, Mirror of My Life; a Hague diary of 1624’), introduction and notes by S.E. Veldhuizen, Hilversum, 1993.]

abobe: view on Lange Voorhout by Jan Van Londerseel (1614) Rijksdienst van het Cultureel Erfgoed; below: Nieuwe Kerk seen from the Spui (1650) - Historisch Museum Den Haag.

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Het is een vreemd soort taal, gedichten. Normaal gebruiken wij onze taal alsof het geld is: je geeft het uit en je ontvangt het. Maar je kijkt er eigenlijk nooit naar.

Je werkt ermee, maar je ziet het niet. In gedichten gaat dat anders: Dan kijk je in het hart van de taal. In het hart van de mens.

to keep the thirteen rusks that come in a roll fresh. For this we can thank Verkade, the Dutch company from Zaandam that first started selling their rusks in a tin in order to preserve their freshness.

Although, I must admit to not owning a tin myself, and to not eating a whole lot of rusks, I still have a weakness for them and will happily indulge in them from time to time. Especially if they’re topped in one of the following ways.

Perhaps a bit of inspiration, should you want to try something other than the more traditional toppings.

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Een blijvertje Het feit dat ik in Holland ben geboren, en bovendien precies in Amsterdam, bewijst toch wel dat ik ben uitverkoren: ik kreeg de hamvraag en ik won de ham.

Een ander wordt geboren in Vietnam of raakt bij voorbaat in Algiers verloren, maar ik, die zo terloops ter wereld kwam, mag rustig tot de blijvertjes behoren.

En ook het tijdstip was perfect gekozen: te jong voor crisis, oorlog en verzet.

Wat dat betreft zat ik dus ook op rozen, want niemand gaf mij later een brevet van onvermogen in het goede of boze.

Mijn leven is een aangenaam verpozen, een ander krijgt de schillen en de dozen.

Beschuit Vitello Tonato: Tuna salad, thinly sliced veal and capers Beschuit ‘Cupcake’: Cream cheese flavoured with sugar and vanilla,kunnen sliced strawberries andHoe freshly-grated darkhoe beter je begrijpt dat er iets helemaal scheef zit. Dit is zo’n Gedichten ook pijn doen. verder je leest, chocolate gedicht. De “ik” die aan het woord is, is niet de dichter, Nico Scheepaker, zelf. Hier spreekt een type dat ons allemaal Green Beschuit: lime juice, olive oilen zelfvoldane krotenkoker in een paar woorden raak bekendMean voorkomt.

Wat Sliced wordtavocado, die arrogante, egoïstische and garden cress neergezet! En bij elke regel wordt het beeld beklemmender en gaat het meer tegenstaan. En toch, we kunnen niet Beschuit Italiano: tomato Het and gedicht eindigt met een klap. Het is de ijzersterke slagzin van de ontkennen dat we Pesto, er zelfmozzarella, ook wel ietscherry van hebben. basil ANWB die je tientallen jaren overal in Nederland tegenkwam. Die is diep in ons nationale geheugen gegrift. De affiche Sunshine Soft cheese, baby spinach and vermaant Beschuit: de mensen diegoat’s voor ons gevoel onschuldig afval in het bos achterlaten: sun-dried tomatoes Laat niet, als dank, voor ’t aangenaam verpoozen Beschuit Parisienne: Scrambled egg with black truffle Den eigenaar van ’t Bosch de schillen en de doozen.

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On 11 December 2014, Prince Constantijn officially opened EIT ICT Labs’ Co-location Centre Eindhoven by putting his personal signature in digital light graffiti on an image of EIT ICT Labs’ pan-European network (photo: EIT ICT Labs).

Prince Constantijn opens EIT ICT Labs in Eindhoven Even though Europe isn’t lacking excellent research facilities, dynamic companies and creative talent, good ideas are too rarely turned into new products or services. Therefore Europe needs a real change of mind-set towards the promotion of a more innovative and entrepreneurial culture. So says the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), founded in 2008 to enhance Europe’s ability to innovate.

In 2010, at the initiative of the European Union, one of the institute’s first Knowledge and Innovation Communities, was established: EIT ICT Labs.

Headquartered in Brussels, its mission is to drive European leadership in ICT innovation and foster entrepreneurial talent for economic growth and quality of life in Europe.

On 11 December 2014, His Royal Highness Prince Constantijn of Orange-Nassau opened EIT ICT Labs’ newest Co-location Centre, based at the High Tech Campus Eindhoven. words Ton van Rooij 42

Education and Innovation Action Lines EIT ICT Labs invests human and financial resources in key high-potential activities for the development of ICT business and talent in Europe. The investments are clustered in pan-European Action Lines. There are three Education Actions Lines – schools focused on ICT education – and eight Innovation Action Lines, bundling thematic activities aimed at impactful outcomes, such as Health & Wellbeing, Smart Energy Systems and Urban Life & Mobility.

Action Lines are executed by European top corporations, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), universities, research institutes and startups, but also by EIT ICT Labs itself. Within EIT ICT Labs, this work is done at nine ‘Nodes’: seven Co-Location Centres (CLC’s) in Eindhoven, Paris, Trento, Berlin, Helsinki, London and Stockholm, and two Associate Partner Groups – consortiums of industrial and educational organisations – in Budapest and Madrid.

There’s also a hub in Silicon Valley in the USA.

universities and companies with attracting IT top talent.”

An organisation that has similar tasks on its plate is iMinds, with which EIT ICT Labs works closely together. As CEO Wim De Waele outlines, “iMinds is Flanders’ digital platform and entrepreneurship hub. Every day, companies and non-profit organisations leverage the know-how and experience of our more than 800 researchers at five Flemish universities. As such, we help them develop products and services that have the potential to profoundly impact the way in which we live and work – both in Flanders and far beyond. Additionally, we help researchers and young entrepreneurs successfully take their ideas to the market.”

Co-Location Centre Eindhoven The Co-location Centre Eindhoven has been established by the partners of the Eindhoven Node: Philips, Océ, NXP, High Tech NL, CWI, TNO, Holst Centre, iMinds, Delft University of Technology, Eindhoven University of Technology, University of Twente and Utrecht University.

The CLC is the result of the scale-up of various EIT ICT Labs activities. The new premises is the home of project activities in health and wellbeing, coached startups, PhD researchers, master school students, professional learning workshops and partner meet-ups. A special space is to be fitted out for the EIT ICT Labs high-impact initiative ‘Fit to Perform’. This will push the roll-out of smart pro-active wellbeing and safety solutions for risk-prone professional workers and individuals.

Cooperation with Flemish iMinds “One of the things we do”, says EIT ICT Labs’ Dutch CEO Prof. Dr. Willem Jonker, “is help researchers who have made an important technological invention by bringing such technology to the market. We also help Dutch startups with expanding internationally, and Dutch

Third Health Tech Event On 9 December 2014, EIT ICT Labs and Jakajima, matchmaker for innovators in the high tech industry, organised the third Health Tech Event. Held at the High Tech Campus Eindhoven’s Conference Center,

above: The Multitouch wall, made of six modular multi-user touch displays, holds technology resulting from EIT ICT Labs’ research focusing on developing concepts for delivering information in public spaces in an engaging and interactive way (photo: EIT ICT Labs).

The GoLivePhone of Gociety is a phone for seniors with lots of smart health-related functions that’s constantly connected with caregivers, enabling prevention, early diagnosis and continuous care (photo: Gociety).

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right: Prince Constantijn of Orange-Nassau during his speech at the inauguration of the Colocation Centre Eindhoven of EIT ICT Labs on 11 December 2014 (photo: Ton van Rooij). below:Prof. Dr. Willem Jonker, CEO of EIT ICT Labs (photo: EIT ICT Labs).

mobile body clock solution to optimise your energy levels and sleep-wake cycle in the most effective way.

It’s a wearable technology in a smart mix of innovative glasses, sophisticated lighting system and a smartphone application. Based on years of cutting-edge research, EnWake wakes you up happier, boosts your energy and improves your sleep. “After wearing the glasses for only 20 minutes, you already feel the beneficial effects of it”, Nikolic states.

EnWake targets shift workers, professional athletes and people having problems getting up in the morning or falling asleep. “It also minimizes jetlag symptoms,” Nikolic explained, “making it interesting for frequent fliers and plane crew members. We’re currently in negotiation with KLM to test the product and sell the glasses on board.”

it showcased the latest developments in the field of medical research and technology, with the emphasis on ICT innovation.

One of the speakers was Frank Verbeek, Managing Director and founder of Gociety. The goal of his company is to substantially increase seniors’ ability to independently live longer and more actively at their homes and enable caregivers to organize remote care more efficiently. “There’s a need for that,” Verbeek stressed, “as right now, 30% of the seniors are lonely, 16% sometimes feel unsafe and 15% is not or barely active.

And in this age group, 8,000 falls a year occur.“ About the solution Gociety has come up with, he said: “In the TV show Star Trek, a device called ‘Tricorder’ is used to instantly check a person’s health state. Our ambition is to develop a ‘Tricorder’ for seniors, to enable prevention, early diagnosis and continuous care. As a first step we successfully developed and marketed the GoLivePhone smartphone and GoLiveAssist web app. When worn, the GoLivePhone keeps record of the person’s activities. The user can set after how much time of inactivity caregivers, who are connected with him or her constantly with GoLiveAssist, will be alerted. But it also has lots of other smart functions, such as the intelligent fall detection.

When you fall, the phone sends a message to a contact person or emergency centre, stating when and where you have fallen. If nothing is wrong, you simply press on the button ‘Alles goed!’ [‘Everything okay!’].”

Branislav Nikolic, CEO and co-founder of EnWake, spoke about ‘EnWake – Your Intelligent Ray of Sunshine’. Born in Serbia, Nikolic is currently living and working in the Netherlands. EnWake is also the name of the world’s first

Well-attended inauguration of CLC Eindhoven On 11 December, the Inauguration Event at the CLC Eindhoven started at 10:00 am with an ‘Open House’, in which 24 demos of Action Line activities, startups and partners were showcased. Through guided tours visitors could get a quick impression of the innovations and how EIT ICT labs works.

The official programme started at 3:00 pm with a guided tour in which Prince Constantijn of Orange-Nassau participated. The Prince is closely connected to the digital agenda Horizon 2020, the EU programme for research and innovation, and is also very well familiar with ICT innovation. Horizon 2020 is the biggest EU Research and Innovation programme ever with nearly €80 billion of funding available over 7 years (2014 to 2020). It promises to deliver lots of breakthroughs, discoveries and worldfirsts by taking great ideas from lab to market.

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the Chair of EIT ICT Labs in the Netherlands, as host and moderator. Willem Jonker, CEO of EIT ICT Labs, was the first on stage. He explained the mission and approach to innovation and education in ICT, emphasising that ICT has become crucial for our society to function and also to tackle future societal challenges. Patrick Strating, Node Director of EIT ICT Labs Eindhoven, shared a time-line view on the growth of EIT ICT Labs in the Netherlands.

One of the EIT ICT Labs Master School students, Charlotte Kortbeek, gave her personal perspective on the future and her view on entrepreneurial education, which she felt was a perfect fit for her. One of the core partners in EIT ICT Labs is Philips. Henk van Houten, CEO of Philips Research, underlined the importance of ICT for new business creation. Finally, René Penning de Vries, ‘ICT figurehead’ and representative of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, spoke on the role of ICT as enabler and driver for growth in Dutch economy.

entrepreneurship in our engineering classes, in our universities. Whatever you call it, the triple helix or innovation triangle, it’s all about working together and making that happen.”

Somewhat later on, he said: “And now I come to a point that’s very important to me. What you’re doing here is not a job – it’s a mission!”

The Prince concluded his presentation with the words: “I wish this Co-location Centre a lot of success and hope it will spin out many, many very successful businesses.”

After his speech, the Prince officially opened the CLC by putting his personal signature in digital light graffiti on an image of the EIT ICT Labs’ pan-European network. A new and exciting chapter in Dutch innovative technology had begun!

Prince Constantijn praises EIT ICT Labs’ work “The real challenge that we have in Europe is culture,” Prince Constantijn pointed out in his inauguration note.

“Not that this culture is bad. In fact, the culture is too good. I think if you see how well-crafted our social system is and how high our quality of life is in Europe, this makes that we are sometimes complacent compared to other parts of the world, where you have to fight harder to get what you want. Culture should not become a drag for entrepreneurship in Europe, but it should be a solid base, a launch pad for it. Europe has massive assets: we have academics, the best scientists, startups with a lot of talent, facilities, decent governments in most parts of Europe and we have peace and stability. None of this should hold us back. It should be something that we cherish, that we build on. Like a tree, we need to nurture the roots. The roots can go deep, only to grow high. That is what our ambition should be. What we also need to do is find the people who are innovators and empower them.”

Regarding the perspectives EIT ICT Labs offers, he observed: “At the core of the DNA of EIT ICT Labs is to build bridges, to see opportunities, to do basically what we’ve been saying for decades: bring more

above: Prince Constantijn of Orange-Nassau, wearing EnWake glasses, which optimise one’s energy levels and sleep-wake cycle in the most effective way (photo: EIT ICT Labs).

Futher information www.eitictlabs.eu www.hightechcampus.com

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Springtime in the Netherlands tourists, tulips and flowers

words Erik Feenstra

Viennese ambassador in Turkey wrote about a flower he had seen and sent some seeds to Austria. Ottoman sultans carried a flower as a symbol on their turbans. The Dutch word tulp probably comes from the word tulipan, Persian for turban. In 1562 the first cargo of tulip bulbs arrived at the port of Antwerp, then the biggest port in the region. According to the story, the merchant thought he had bought onions and tried some. As they did not taste nice at all, he threw them on a compost heap and a year later tulips flourished there. Carolus Clusius planted the first documented examples in the Hortus Botanicus Leiden, which he managed since 1593. Most cultivated varieties originate from these first tulips. The Dutch climate appeared to be ideal for tulips, preferring cold nights and cold winters to a warm climate.

Tulip Festival Amsterdam What would Amsterdam be without tulips? To tourists they are one and the same, but the flower disappeared slowly out of the city. The Tulip Festival changed it: during the month of April Amsterdam was brimming with tulips. Last autumn 423,027 bulbs were planted on prominent locations in the city. This will be topped with 116,074 tulips in pots. In coming years it will be increased to 800,000: as many bulbs as residents. Nowadays, the Noordoostpolder contains the most tulip fields of the country and organises its yearly Tulpenfestival in April/ May. Keukenhof and Bollenvelden Holland is famous for its cultivated tulip: thé icon of the Netherlands. The tulip is one of the most important export products of the country. Every spring Keukenhof displays the newest varieties. The flower park is situated in the midst of the Bollenvelden, the bulb fields in the west of the country. In springtime long strips of tulips, daffodils, hyacinths and crocuses, every strip showing its own colour (together with Keukenhof) creates a real celebration of spring, admired by hundred thousands of tourists.

The tulip isn’t Dutch at all However, originally the tulip isn’t Dutch. In 1551, a

Tulip mania – crisis in the 17th century In the 17th century the Dutch Republic went through a bizarre addiction, tulpengekte or tulpenrage (tulip mania): speculating with tulip bulbs. Around 1600 the price of tulips started to rise. French court ladies paid hundreds of guldens just for one tulip, to decorate their cleavage at gala balls. In 1623 one special tulip went for 1000 gulden, the average yearly income was 150 gulden. The price of a bulb rose fast, until the bulb’s value was as high as its own weight in gold. Religious Dutch citizens considered the tulip trade as a big sin and 46

left: National Tulip Day 17 January 2015, Amsterdam (I Amsterdam)

right: papiercorso in Appingedam (Groningen)

believed the plague – a dangerous epidemic disease at the time - was a punishment from God. Winter 1636/37 the mania had reached its peak; in February 1637 the bulb price dropped as quickly as it rose. Many punters in Amsterdam and other cities in Holland lost their money: it was a 17th century credit crisis, like the big crash of 1929, the internet hype of the 90s and the credit crisis in 2008-2009.

sold, but there are so many flowers, many would end on the compost heap. The Dutch - pragmatic as they are found a creative solution: the ‘Bloemencorso’, a parade of floats, decorated with this surplus flowers. It is a Dutch ‘invention’, although worldwide people organise their own parades.

Parades of flowers The first ‘bloemencorso’s’ probably took place in the Middle Ages during Carnival. The Bollenstreek Bloemencorso starts in Rijnsburg, the heart of the flower industry. It is the hometown of FloraHolland, a conglomerate of flower and plant auctioneers and the biggest one in the world, taking care of 90% of the export.

In an auction hall volunteers decorate and prepare the floats. Every April the parade moves through the region, makes ‘a pit stop’ at Keukenhof, and ends in Haarlem, historically the centre of tulip bulbs. It attracts hundreds of thousands of spectators from all over the world. This parade is not just a way of making use of a surplus of flowers, but also to promote the flower industry.

The Darwintulp became a hit After this downfall, tulips remained popular, for instance in England. Dutch tulip bulbs had such an excellent quality, that other countries believed that they only would grow well in Holland. Humbug, of course, but many Dutch merchants used this misbelieve for their own benefit… Haarlem became the centre of tulip bulbs; the region south of this town – the World famous Bollenvelden - turned out to be ideal to cultivate bulbs, and still is. In 1885 Jacob Krelage bought a unique collection of bulbs, from which he created a new one, the Darwintulp. The colours are more intense: the Darwintulp became an international hit. After a dip during the two World Wars, the tulip flower bulb is flourishing again, helped by modern means like air transport and Internet.

Dahliacorso’s In August and September, different bloemencorso’s take place in the east and south of the country. Here floats and cars are decorated with dahlias, which flowers at this time of the year. These parades go back to 1898 and were held to celebrate the inauguration of Queen Wilhelmina on 5 September. Her birthday, August 31st, became Koninginnedag, reason for many festivities. Besides, this time of the year was harvest time. Many villages in the

The bulb is important, the flower ‘just an accessory’ As famous as the Dutch flower fields are because of the impressive range of colours, growers regard them ‘just an accessory’. To them the bulb is the important part. When fully grown, the flower will be cut off, to keep nutrition in the bulb. What to do with the flowers? They will be 47

country traditionally held their own week of festivities, with an allegorical parade as the highlight: the precursor of the flower parade. In fact, dahliacorso’s are cultural events, with the focus on theatre and visual design, whereas corso’s in the west of the country are more commercial orientated. Above all, dahliacorso’s are social events. Clubs and city councils are often responsible for the maintenance of flower fields, build their own floats and organise side events. Competition is high: the corso is a game, a match, comparable to, for instance, the Carnival parade of Rio de Janeiro. Zundert, a village close to the Belgian border, south of Breda, organises the biggest Dutch dahliacorso. In 2012 it was officially added to the list of National Immaterial Heritage.

Parades with other products Besides flower parades, there are different parades using other products, for instance fruitcorso’s (Fruit Parades) in Tiel – the city of fruit in the heart of ‘the fruit garden of the Netherlands’ – and Goes (a city in Zeeland). Appingedam (a small city in the province Groningen) has a ‘papiercorso’ (parade of paper) and Lievelde (a village in the east of the country near the German border) a ‘wolcorso’ (parade of wool). The Westland, the ‘vegetable garden of Holland’ south of The above left: An image from Verzameling Van Een Meenigte Tulipaanen -- the 1637 tulip book of P. Cos, the source document for much of what is known about Tulip mania; left: Aalsmeer flower action; below: Zundert (Noord Brabant) bloemencorso.

Hague, every year organises the Varend Corso (floating parade), a three day event.

Flowers, flowers and flowers Aalsmeer, south of Amsterdam, is well known for its flower auction, the biggest one in the world. In the region horticulture is important, but growers from all over the world come to this auction to trade their flowers. The nearby airport Schiphol makes Aalsmeer an ideal location to trade and export flowers. From here, they go to all corners of the world. Every year at Easter, the Pope thanks the Dutch for sending flowers to decorate the Saint Pieter Square (‘Bedankt voor die bloemen!’), when he offers his Easter blessing. Since 1948, every first weekend in September, a big Bloemencorso moves from Aalsmeer to Amsterdam, mainly for commercial and promotional reasons.

Although famous (because broadcasted on TV every year), it stopped in 2007 and was replaced by a more modest event.

Please go to www.eropuit.blog.nl and, if interested in main news (in Dutch), www.wereldnieuws.blog.nl. Do you have any questions or comments about one of these sites: you are most welcome to react under ‘plaats reactie’.

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Sophie Rutten

Ik ben geboren in 1933 in Malang op Oost-Java. Mijn volle naam was Sophie Antoinette Leonie Teurlings. Mijn vader was Hoofd-Administrateur van de Oost-Java Rubber Co. We woonden in een mooi huis met een grote tuin. Ik was enigst kind. Mijn lagere school opleiding kreeg ik thuis.

Een kamer was ingericht als schoolklas en ik had een privé-onderwijzeres. Ik kan wel zeggen dat ik, tot 1942, een onbezorgde jeugd heb gehad. Daar kwam in 1942 een eind aan toen de Japanners arriveerden op Oost-Java. Het bleek al gauw dat de bezetters het niet goed voor hadden met de Nederlanders. Het was een zenuwslopende tijd voor mijn ouders. Na een korte tijd moesten we ons melden en werden per vrachtwagen en trein naar een kamp afgevoerd. Mijn vader naar een mannenkamp en mijn moeder en ik naar het vrouwenkamp. Ons eerste kamp was een soldatenbarak in Solo, op midden Java. Het laatste kamp waar we in waren was een oude gevangenis waar we in de nu lege paardenstallen sliepen.

Er is al eerder, en veel, geschreven over de slechte behandeling in die kampen. Ik kan dat beamen. Onze moeders moesten dagelijks op appèl en diep buigen als eerbetoon aan de Japanse keizer. De hygienische toestand liet veel te wensen over en dan was daar het ergste, de honger! Het eten was slecht en ontoereikend.

In ons kamp waren jonge vrouwen die overdag buiten het kamp moesten werken. Die brachten wel eens wat voedsel mee. Alles wat eetbaar was ging de pot in en we hebben zelfs slakken gegeten.

De atoombom heeft ons leven gered. In 1945 gaven de Japanners zich over. Wij dolblij natuurlijk, vooral toen we onze Engelse bevrijders konden begroeten. We zagen er natuurlijk niet al te florisant uit en een Engelse officier zei wat laatdunkend: “What sort of people are these?”

Iedereen wilde natuurlijk direct uit het kamp maar we moesten nog een tijdje blijven, nu ‘bewaakt’ door Engelse militairen. Dit als beveiliging tegen de terreurbendes van de TNI. Maar eindelijk was het toch zover. Via het Rode Kruis vonden we vader die ook zijn kamp overleefd had en zijn in 1946 naar Nederland vertrokken. Daar vonden we onderdak in Apeldoorn. Ik was 12 jaar oud een had natuurlijk geen normale school kunnen volgen. Ik was ‘achter’ en moest de 5e klas doen. Gelukkig was ik gauw ‘bij’ en deed de 5e, 6e en zevende klas in 1 jaar. Daarna heb ik de H.B.S. opleiding gevolgd en vandaar naar kantoor.

Maar ik voelde me toch niet thuis in Nederland, het klimaat lag me niet.

Wel ontmoette ik daar een leuke jongeman, Robert Rutten, en we kregen trouwplannen. Maar toen 49

ging hij naar Indië als shipmate voor de K.P.M. Ik wilde hem volgen, maar de K.P.M. verzorgde de overtocht en huisvesting alleen voor getrouwden.

We zijn toen ‘met de handschoen’ getrouwd met Roberts broer Eddy als ‘stand-in’. Toen kon ik ook gaan.

In Indië zijn we ‘echt’ getrouwd in de kathedraal in Djakarta.

Toen de K.P.M. ermee ophield kregen we de keus of naar Nederland terug of emigreren. We kozen Australië.

In 1957 arriveerden we in ZuidAustralië. Robert vond werk bij de S.A. Railways waar hij zich opwerkte tot stationschef. Hij kreeg verschillende standplaatsen in het noorden van Zuid Australië. We wenden er al snel. Ik werd lid van de Country womens Ass. en plaatselijke vereningingen. Onze familie was intussen met drie kinderen uitgebreid en we hebben geen slechte herinneringen aan onze tijd in de bush. In mei a.s. zijn we 60 jaar getrouwd en we gaan het vieren met kinderen, kleinkinderen en achterkleinkinderen.

We mogen niet mopperen!

Johan de Rooy

Towards a Sustainable Model for the Preservation of Immigrant Cultural Heritage

DACC participates in Cultural Heritage Initiatives Workshop, 17-19 February 2015

words Klaas Woldring

Day Two of the Workshop was held at the University of Western Sydney, Parramatta South Campus, opened by Dr Nonja Peters & Professor Paul Arthur. Willem N. Cosijn, Consul-General of the Netherlands in Sydney, introduced the Workshop on behalf of the Embassy. Quite amazingly he revealed that one of his ancestors, by the name of Cosijn, sailed on the Batavia that shipwrecked in the Abrolhos Islands, in Western Australia, 1629.

Held at the University of Western Sydney in partnership with Curtin University, DACC, the Centre for European Studies at the Australian National University, and funded by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, this event was concerned with the historical activity of people moving from one region to settle in another. On day one, professional participants from several universities and museums in Australia, the Netherlands and New Zealand were hosted by DACC in Smithfield. We presented the Centre, the archive and its collections within the context of preservation and long-term sustainability issues. Archivist Sr. Lia van Haren gave a quality presentation about the extent of her work over the last six years. Secretary Klaas Woldring talked about the attractions and educational values of presenting Dutch migration history, as well as the earlier history of the VOC seafarers and associated cartography. It was a full house with some 25 people packed into the Centre’s meeting room, actively engaging in debate and clearly enjoying the setting. The session was followed by an excellent Dutch lunch in the restaurant. The visiting delegation then travelled back by complimentary coach to the Waterside Studio, at and sponsored by the Maritime Museum, Darling Harbour and the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands for the official Welcome and Reception.

Dr. Helen Kon of the National Museum of Australia provided the opening Keynote address. She discussed the often widespread and understandably passionate desire of ethnic groups to start heritage centres but pointed out that the sustainability of them was sometimes a controversial and difficult task. Helen was formerly Chair of the Community Heritage Grants unit of the National Library.

Several community archive stakeholders and interested members of the public also attended days two and three, which included representatives from the Genealogical Group, the Federation and the DACC. Other delegates on day two were Helen Light, Multicultural New South Wales; Maie Barrow, who gave an excellent presentation about the Estonian Archives in Australia which is widely regarded 50

century, then again in 1923 and, more recently, in 1948.

Aiden Wilson and Ingrid Mason of Intersect Australia concluded the session with a presentation of their Australian National Data Service, for organisations not familiar with modern collection techniques.

Migration, Mobility and Connection The workshop examined the archival, custodial and digital challenges that impact the discovery, collection, preservation and content management of material and immaterial traces from the past that the Netherlands shares with Australia and New Zealand. In partnership with key institutional and community stakeholders, the workshop builds on new understandings about the experience and representation of migration and how this has shaped an evolving sense of Dutch-Australasian heritage and, with it, the consequences for the formation of cultural identities.

As part of the conditions of funding from the Embassy who supported this event, the organisers are preparing a report on the Symposium for the Embassy that will be available for wider circulation at a later time. They will also be inviting papers from all speakers for collation into a special edited volume, which will be an important intervention in on-going debates about the state of mutual cultural heritage in Australia presently. With a pilot-study focus on the Dutch-Australian situation, it is hoped that recent talks can take the lead in these important issues.

as an exemplar model; and Pauline Cockrill of History South Australia who talked about the Migration Museum in Adelaide.

After lunch Rik Hoekstra of the Huygens Institute, The Hague presented an outline of a Project based on Dutch emigrant records (registration cards) matching them with Australian Dutch immigration records to achieve a more complete database picture. The Dutch cards were kept by the DACC for six years on behalf of the Consulate and returned to The Hague in 2004, a fact the speaker may not have been aware of. Robyn van Dyk, Head of Research at the Australian War Memorial, talked about the Dutch and ANZAC connection that is quite extensive after 1940. Kim Tao of the Australian National Maritime Museum spoke about refugee and child migrant stories. This presenter discussed the leaving of Liverpool stories and similar fundamentally flawed child exploitation schemes. Other presenters of the late afternoon session included Louise Denoon, State Library of NSW; Robyn Gamble, National Archives of Australia; and Shaun Rohrlach, National Archives of Australia.

On Day Three, the case Study by Arjan van der Boon, Manukau Institute of Technology and Founder, Dutch Museum in Foxton, New Zealand, drew much attention and praise. It is certainly relevant to Dutch heritage centres in Australia. The key to success, after seven years of planning, is to be part of well-funded multi-purpose centre, and placed in a sensible location. Arjan found that in Foxton, where the Local Council encourages regional tourism, in an area of which 20% of all Dutch-New Zealanders live within fairly close proximity. To be completed in 2017 Arjan proposed that the “Echoes of the Past” exhibition should be shown in Foxton.

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Ik hoop op deze manier mensen met kanker te helpen.

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More with less: NL and NZ working together in Dairy total dairy production, which will lead to more pollution.

Dutch farmers have already been forced by government regulations to reduce pollution drastically. The government of New Zealand has not yet implemented such strict regulations, but there is a growing public concern in New Zealand about pollution caused by the dairy industry.

Professor Dijkhuizen states that NZ will need to innovate its dairy industry if it wants to continue to increase production and be sustainable (less polluting) at the same time. New Zealand has a green image and should do its utmost to keep this major asset. So what can New Zealand learn from our farming system to make dairy greener and more efficient?

The answer, according to Dijkhuizen, lies in the efficient, yet animal friendly, housing of cows. Key element of the Dutch dairy system is the barn. Barns are a great instrument for increasing production and efficiency, but also reducing pollution. The waste matter of cows, which is now the biggest polluter of New Zealand’s groundwater, can be intercepted in barns and be used as manure when and where needed. Research shows that housing cows in sheds for part of the year improves the wellbeing of the animals, particularly in cold winters like those of the South Island. Milking, feeding and treating cows can be done most efficiently in barns. Cows in the Netherlands are constantly monitored for health and stress levels and score very well. This setup is key to the high milk production of Dutch cows – which is double of the cows in New Zealand.

If the dairy sector wants New Zealand to stay green, barns

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Dairy down under: A visit from Professor Aalt Dijkhuizen Each parking floor at Schiphol-airport in Amsterdam is named after something that the Netherlands is famous for. You can park your car at clogs, tulips or windmill. But also “cow” has been allocated its rightful place amongst the parking floors. We sometimes forget that as a small country, we cast a big shadow over the global dairy industry.

With important companies such as Fonterra, New Zealand also pulls its weight in the dairy world. The differences between our production systems are quite different.

Whilst cows in New-Zealand are almost exclusively kept outside, cows in the Netherlands are often kept in barns.

Each system has its benefits, and we have much to learn from each other. This is why the Embassies of the Netherlands in New Zealand and Australia organised a visit from Professor Aalt Dijkhuizen, the president of Topsector Agri & Food, the Netherlands. He is one of the leading experts in dairy and agriculture. Dijkhuizen travelled down under to share his ideas on the future of global dairy and the Dutch expertise in this field.

His point of view is that the Dutch can learn from New Zealand’s efficient pasture management methods. The Kiwi farmers manage to keep their cost low by making maximum use of their pastures and more grazing, particularly over summer, appeals to Dutch customers.

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are the way ahead, according to Professor Dijkhuizen. If worldwide production per cow would increase to the levels of Dutch cows, the world would need 20 per cent fewer cows (66 million cows) to meet the predicted doubling in demand. That would result in a reduction of 750 million tonnes of feed consumed, which would free up 155 million hectares of agricultural land and save 165 million litres of water. Not only is increasing production per cow necessary for the economy, but also for the environment.

During his visit Professor Dijkhuizen proposed a hybrid system, combining the best elements of the New Zealand and the Dutch systems. However investing in these innovative, hybrid systems will be costly and many NZ farmers currently struggle due to low dairy prices. On top of that, New Zealand loves its pasture-based system. Even though change is not always easy, Professor Dijkhuizen argues that it’s crucial if the NZ dairy wants to remain a key player at the world stage. Exporting our expertise to NZ, would offer great opportunities for Dutch companies and the Netherlands as a country.

Through dialogues between Aalt Dijkhuizen, government representatives, farmers organisations, and academics, one thing became clear: we can learn from each other.

Both countries have extensive experience and brilliant scientists who can team up to create a system of dairy farming that is both green and competitive. Together we can secure a bright future where farmers, consumers and the environment will all be winners. photo above: gentleman on the left (back) Aalt Dijkhuizen, next to him the Dutch ambassador to New Zealand Rob Zaagman with people from the Massey University.

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Kobus Kuch (Delft), famous for its appeltaart

Appeltaart is a favorite treat in many Dutch households when there is something to celebrate. Most families will have their own recipe. Although the basics will be the same, slight variations will change the taste of the appeltaart.

Basically appeltaart is a fruit pie (or tart) in which the principal filling ingredient is apple. In the Netherlands it is normally served with whipped cream on top. The pastry is generally used on the top and bottom, making it a doublecrust pie, the upper crust can be a pastry lattice woven of strips.

Basic Ingredients Cooking apples such as Goudreinetten (Dutch rustic apple variety, also called Schone van Boskoop). Appeltaart asks for a firm, tart and fragrant apple that will stand up well in cooking. Granny Smith is another variety that works well. Further ingredients are: flour, sugar, eggs, and butter.

Many counties have some sort of variation of appeltaart.

Swedish style The apple pie is predominantly a variety of apple crumble, rather than a traditional pastry pie. Often breadcrumbs are used (wholly or partially) instead of flour, and sometimes rolled oats. It is usually seasoned with cinnamon and served with vanilla custard or ice-cream. There is also a very popular version called äppelkaka (apple cake), which is a sponge cake baked with fresh apple pieces in it.

France Has its very famous Tarte Tartin In American culture An apple-pie is one of a number of American cultural icons.

Apple-pie was brought to the English colonies by the British, Dutch, and Swedes in the 17th and 18th centuries.

As there were no native apples in the English colonies, the apple-pie had to wait for the planting of European varieties to become fruit-bearing apple trees. In the meantime, the colonists were more likely to make their pies, or ‘pasties’, from meat rather than 56

biggest appeltaart ever, 92cm (PietPeters)

fruit and the main use of apples, once available, was in cider. However, there are American apple-pie recipes, both manuscript and printed, from the 18th century and it has since become a very popular dessert. Modern American recipes for apple-pie usually are for a sweet of 22cm in diameter in a fluted pie plate with an apple filling seasoned with cinnamon, nutmeg, and lemon juice and may or may not have lattice or shapes cut out of the top for decoration.

United Kingdom English apple pie recipes go back to the early 1300s.

In English speaking countries, apple-pie is a dessert of enduring popularity, eaten hot or cold, on its own or with ice cream, double cream, or custard.

Dutch style Traditional Dutch appeltaart comes in two varieties, a crumb (appelkruimeltaart) and a (mostly) lattice (appeltaart) style tart, both recipes are distinctive in that they typically call for seasoning such as cinnamon and lemon juice and differ in texture, not taste. Dutch appeltaart may include ingredients such as raisins and walnuts, in addition to apples and sugar. Recipes for Dutch appeltaart go back centuries. A painting from the Dutch Golden Age, 1626, features such a taart. A recipe in a late medieval Dutch cookbook ‘Een notabel boecxken van cokeryen’ (from around 1514) is almost identical to modern recipes.

The basis of appeltaart is a crust on the bottom and around the edges. And filled with apple pieces or slices, usually a crisp and mildly tart variety such as Goudreinet, Granny Smith or Elstar. Cinnamon and sugar are generally mixed in with the apple filling. Atop the filling, strands of dough cover the pie in a lattice holding the filling in place but keeping it visible. It can be eaten warm or cold, with whipped cream.

My friend Mappie’s appeltaart Dough ingredients 300 gr plain flower 50 gr self-raising flower 175 gr sugar 250 gr butter

Filling 6 – 8 Grannie Smith apples 100gr sugar 2 teaspoons cinnamon 50gr raisins 50gr almond slivers Mix the flour, sugar, butter and salt into a dough and rest for ½ hour in a cool spot.

Butter your baking tin (springvorm) and place 3/4 of the pastry on the bottom and sides. Fill with diced apple, sugar, cinnamon, raisins and almonds.

Cover the top with the rest of the pastry in lattice form and brush with 1 egg yolk or milk. Bake in the middle of the oven for about 1½ hours at 180 degrees Celsius.

My mum’s recipe dough ingredients 250gr self-raising flower 150gr butter 125gr light brown or white castor sugar 1 egg yolk Rind of one lemon Pinch of salt (only when using unsalted butter) Filling 500gr Granny Smith apples 50gr vanilla sugar 50gr raisins and dried currants, soaked in rum 3 tablespoons custard powder cinnamon 2 tablespoons apricot jam Cut cold butter into small cubes, mix with flower into a dough. Rest in fridge.

Use rolling pin to roll dough into a round shape of about 3/4cm thick. Cover bottom of baking tin (springvorm) with the dough and also the edges.

Sprinkle some custard powder on the bottom. Fill with layers of sliced apple, vanilla sugar, dried currants/raisins, custard powder and cinnamon.

Bake de appeltaart for about 1 to 1½ hours at 170 – 180 degrees Celsius Brush appeltaart with apricot jam when still hot.

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landje zwart handje Volwassenen die tegenover kinderen voortdurend verkleinwoordjes gebruiken. Daar heb ik een vreselijke hekel aan.

‘Geef oma eens een handje.’ Of: “Zal ik je laarsjes eens aan je voetjes doen?” Of zelfs: “Maak je haartjes en je bolletje eens netjes.” Ik vind dat je niet zo tegen kinderen moet praten.

TaalsTaaltje door Frans Hertoghs Beledigend Volwassenen zien van kleine kinderen steeds maar weer hoe klein ze zijn. Daarom vertellen ze dat er ongevraagd altijd maar weer bij. Maar een kind vindt zijn afmeting niet zo belangrijk. Hij weet heus wel dat zijn handen, voeten, haren en hoofd kleiner zijn dan die van grote mensen.

Maar dat is doodgewoon. Daarom is het ronduit vervelend, zelfs beledigend - dat hij steeds maar ongevraagd moeten horen dat hij nog lang niet volwassen is, dat hij dus eigenlijk niet mee kan “met de groten”.

Irrelevant Stel, dat uw buurman een neger is. Zou u dan voortdurend tegen hem zeggen, dat hij zwart is? Dat u zegt: ‘Buurman, geef mij uw zwarte hand.”

Of: “Uw kroeshaar en uw zwarte hoofd zijn helemaal nat geworden.” Dat is ronduit beledigend, denigrerend. Praat dan bij een kind dan ook niet over zijn handjes, voetjes, haartjes en bolletje. Trouwens, het kind kan wel prachtige lange lokken hebben terwijl u zelf gemillimeterd bent. En wie heeft er 58

dan haren en wie haartjes?

Kortom, je voegt ongevraagde informatie toe, die voor jezelf misschien wel van belang is - anders was het je niet opgevallen - maar die bij een ander niet relevant. Dat komt onaangenaam of soms zelfs ongepast over.

Klein vaderland Als je Nederlanders hoort over hun vaderland, dan spreken ze vrijwel allemaal over hun ‘kleine landje’. Ze zeggen bijvoorbeeld: “De files in ons kleine landje zijn werkelijk niet te verdragen.” Of: “Het kleine landje aan de Noordzee is een belangrijke handelspartner voor Zwitserland.”

Terwijl dat land toch aanzienlijk kleiner is dan Nederland, maar dat wordt er niet bij verteld.

Hoe klein is Nederland?

Het aantal vierkante kilometers bedraagt ruim eenenveertigduizend. Vergeleken met Australië met zijn ruim zeven miljoen vierkante kilometer is dat inderdaad klein.

Maar hoeveel procent van die miljoenen vierkante kilometers zijn eigenlijk bewoonbaar of bebouwbaar?

Als je dat gaat vergelijken, dan is Australië

minstens vijftien keer kleiner dan het lijkt. De republiek Tsjaad in Afrika heeft meer dan een miljoen vierkante kilometer grondgebied, maar een nog veel kleiner bruikbaar deel.

Bruikbaar land Wie is dan groter, en waar meet je dat aan af? Of neem Zwitserland, dat iets minder groot is dan Nederland, maar waarvan een groot deel van het oppervlak bestaat uit even mooie als onbruikbare bergen. Hebben die het over hun kleine landje? En zou u denken dat er ook maar een inwoner van Israël zijn land ongevraagd als een ‘klein landje’ zou betitelen? En dat terwijl Israël minder dan de helft heeft van het Nederlandse aantal vierkante kilometers.

Groot waarin?

Waar meet je de grootte van een land eigenlijk mee?

Misschien met het aantal inwoners? Dan is Nederland met zijn bijna zeventien miljoen inwoners nog helemaal niet zo’n klein landje. Het zit in dezelfde categorie als Australië, Syrië en Chili. Qua inwoneraantal is het fors groter dan België, Portugal, Griekenland, Wit-Rusland, Hongarije en Cambodja. Het is ongeveer tweemaal zo groot als Israël, Zwitserland, Zweden of Oostenrijk. En het is meer dan driemaal zo groot als Nieuw-Zeeland, Ierland, Finland, Denemarken, Noorwegen en Albanië. Om van de echte kleintjes nog maar te zwijgen.

Of meet je de grootheid van een land in zijn rijkdom, het bruto nationaal product? Of meet je liever zijn cultuur, zijn gezondheidszorg, opleidingsniveau of sociale systeem? Want ook in die gebieden kan Nederland aardig mee meekomen.

Oranjegekte Als je Nederland zo bekijkt is die ongevraagde toevoeging ‘een klein landje’ niet alleen irrelevant, onjuist en irritant. Wat beweegt dan al die Nederlanders in hemelsnaam om hun eigen land onmiddellijk en ongevraagd af te kammen? Zijn Nederlanders dan zo weinig nationalistisch, chauvinistisch en trots op hun land? Welnee! Er hoeft maar een groot voetbaltoernooi te komen en heel Nederland gaat volkomen uit zijn dak. Het hele land wentelt zich in de oranjegekte.

Boven het maaiveld Maar het is een trots met een dubbele bodem. Nederlanders staan klaar om hun idolen te laten vallen als bakstenen. Want de cultuur in Nederland is die van “Doe maar gewoon, dan doe je al gek genoeg”. Het is het land waar een koningin gewoon op de fiets moet, waar een kroonprins de Elfstedentocht meerijdt en waar niemand beter mag zijn dan een ander. Voor ons geen hel59

den, supermensen, idolen en supersterren.

Wat boven het maaiveld uitsteekt, wordt genadeloos afgemaaid. Wie zijn geld laat rollen is ordinair, wie graag op de voorgrond treedt is publiciteitsgeil, wie graag gezien wil worden is een exhibitionist.

Gaapsaai De rest van de wereld begrijpt daar helemaal niets van.

Voor hen zijn wij een gaapsaai land, zonder hoogte- of dieptepunten. Een land om snel te vergeten, om over het hoofd te zien, om links te laten liggen. En dat is precies wat er internationaal gebeurt.

Calimerosyndroom De Nederlanders zijn zelf de voornaamste schuldigen.

Ze beginnen al op hun rug te gaan liggen met de pootjes omhoog. Ze roepen zelf al ongevraagd dat Nederland maar een klein landje is, nog vóór iemand anders dat zou kunnen zeggen. Terwijl het verdorie niet eens waar is!

Het lijkt het eendje Calimero wel, het eendje dat de hele dag maar roept: Zij zijn groot en ik ben klein en dat is niet eerlijk!

Hoe zou u kijken als het kind van uw zwarte buurman tegen u zou zeggen: “Ik kom u even een zwart handje geven.”

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Keukenhof 2015 theme Vincent van Gogh

The Keukenhof has opened again and this year’s theme is Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890). A flower mosaic of a self portrait by Vincent van Gogh and a vase with sunflowers, a selfie garden, a tulip named after Vincent in the ‘walk of fame’, all honour Van Gogh. Vincent Willem (person on the right on photo bove), a great-grandson of Vincent’s brother Theo, calls it a ‘grand party’.

On 18 March, during his speech Vincent Willem van Gogh emphasised the relationship between Van Gogh and the Keukenhof. “In honour of the birth of his brother Theo’s baby, my grandfather, Vincent drew almond blossom as a symbol of a new spring, a new life.”

At the opening of the new season of the Keukenhof the smell and sight of almond blossom is everywhere. The park has one of the largest collections in the world of almond trees. Willem Vincent immediately said yes when asked to be part of the opening.

words Marianne Visser van Klaarwater

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Van Gogh Museum Vincent Willem’s grandfather donated all paintings by his uncle to the state, 200 in total, with a value of 15 million guilders. Also the letters to his brother Theo and 400 drawings by Paul Gauguin. This formed the basis for the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam (July 1973) and the collection at the Kröller-Müller museum in the National Park De Hoge Veluwe. Both museums assisted the Keukenhof with the realisation of the Van Gogh Theme.

photo Peter Lasschuit

Uit de verf Impressive, moving and inspiring was the reading ‘Uit de verf’, by Regina Ederveen (harp) and Robert la Moresa (word artist). “This impression of Vincent’s life usually takes 45 minutes. Now we had eight minutes only,” Robert explains afterwards. Central in this Tableau Vivant (live painting) are the 200 letters Vincent wrote to his brother Theo.

Van Gogh’s studio New in the park are the eight inspiration gardens, including the mobile Van Gogh studio. Follow the blossoms, just like Van Gogh did. The beautiful flowering magnolias and prunus trees shape the decor.

Behind the painter’s easel, using brushes and a painter’s palette and wearing a hat you could draw the beauty of nature just like Van Gogh. The blossom as a symbol of new life.

Apart from that, the combination of his work with tens of thousands of flowers are strikingly beautiful, like the farmer with the rosary.

An inspiration is the Selfie-garden: take a selfie next to a painting of Van Gogh.

Flower mosaic A flower mosaic of 250m² was layed out to honour Vincent. About 120 people planted the 50,000 tulip bulbs and grape hyacinth bulbs with the pointy end upwards.

They form a self portrait of Van Gogh and a vase with sunflowers.

Tulpomania The impressive story behind the tulip is displayed in Tulpomania. The Juliana building was re-designed for this display in 2014. It is about the black tulip and the story of the tulip mania, a canal house could be bought for two tulip bulbs in those days.

Van Gogh tulip Nearby in the ‘Walk of Fame’ a tulip named after him is flowering (photo left). The gardeners of the Keukenhof also planted Van Gogh tulips near the different museums that pay attention to Van Gogh: - Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam - Kröller-Müller Museum at the Hoge Veluwe - Noordbrabant’s Museum in ’s Hertogenbosch

7 million bulbs The keukenhof will be open until 17 May. Director Bert Smierink is very proud of ‘his’ park. With its 7 million bulbs the Keukenhof is, during those eight weeks, the most beautiful park in the world. Last year it attracted eight hundred thousand visitors from more than one hundred countries. They marked it 8.9 out of ten.

Keukenhof is doing fine, thank you.

Sand artist It seems that Van Gogh still inspires artists as is shown by the contribution of the sand artist Gert van der Vijver.

During the opening he portrayed Vincent’s life in sand.

The almond blossom was indeed included.

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Photo of fake Zuytdorp inscription

The Zuytdorp Inscription

a fake

words Henry Van Zanden

Last year, I published what I believed to be genuine photos of inscriptions by the Zuytdorp survivors.

However, at least one of those inscriptions has proved to be a well-made fake.

to Batavia.

Further details of the letter and all things related to the Gilt Dragon, can be seen on the website www.giltdragon. com.au.

I have consulted with Robert Badnarik, who was also present at the site during the time of its ‘discovery.’

However, Mr Badnarik did reveal that there was an authentic Zuytdorp inscription. There is significant doubt also over the “Jan 1714” inscription.

There has been some more good news regarding the Vergulde Draeck Inscription Rock. After taking out a F.O.I. (Freedom of Information) request on matters relating to the inscription, I came across the following: ‘Recommended Action: Mr Van Zanden be advise that the bulk of the expert professional opinion is that the inscription is modern and that he may recover it for his own personal interest’ Minister’s ref: 33-25952, dated 29 July 2014.’

Dear Henry, Many thanks! The “Jan 1714” inscription is obviously problematic. We could not locate it, and no-one but the photographer has ever seen it. Not a good start. The unreadable Zuytdorp inscription can be mentioned, and an image of it has been published. However, until we get these inscription vandals under control I will not reveal its location …

Kind regards, Robert

Minister Day has been most helpful and has followed procedural guidelines to the letter. I have written to Minister Day requesting confirmation of the recommended action. I have offered to remove the rock inscription.

‘Since it is the opinion of your office and the WAMM (WA Maritime Museum) that ‘the Vergulde Drack 1656 inscription at Ocean Reef cannot be protected under either the Commonwealth Historic Shipwrecks Act 1976 or the State Maritime Archaeology Act 1973 as it does not: (a) comply with the definition of a ‘historic relic’ under the Historic Shipwrecks Act; and (b) is dated post

New Discovery by Steve Caffery of the Gilt Dragon Research Group Thankfully there has been some good news. Steve Caffery, founder of the Gilt Dragon Research Group, has unearthed a copy of a letter written by the survivors of the Gilt Dragon. This tragic letter was given to the eight sailors who took the only remaining boat 3,000 km back 62

1900 and therefore cannot be protected under the maritime Archaeology Act,’ then I am presuming that nothing prevents us from retrieving the rock inscription ourselves …

I ask you to please confirm that I may remove the Vergulde Draeck Rock Inscription at my own expense from the site at Ocean Reef so that I do not fall foul of any law, council regulations …’ Dated 8 March.

Robert Bednarik has offered to excavate the site after he returns from his overseas commitments. Once the rock is recovered and the site excavated, Mr Badnarik, one of the world’s foremost petroglyph dating experts, will scientifically analyse the microscopic fractures caused by the chiselling tool to determine the age of the inscription.

After all inspections are made, the rock inscription will be returned to what will be the newly built marina to be built on the existing site of the Vergulde Draeck Inscription rock.

During April, 2015, I will be completing a documentary of my book, The Lost White Tribes of Australia (see advert in this issue). The documentary will be produced

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NESWA Op zaterdag 9 mei a.s. houden onze veteranen weer hun herdenkingsdienst bij het monument op het terrein van de DSWC, 21 Greenfield Drive, Greenfields. De gelederen van onze oudstrijders zijn uitgedund en dit kan wel eens de laatste keer zijn dat ze een herdenkingsdienst kunnen organiseren. Daarom draagt deze dienst een bijzonder karakter.

Aanwezig zal zijn de Governor of South Australia Mr Hieu van Le A.O. en Mrs Le. Ook de Ambassadeur voor het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden H.E. Mrs A. Ruigrok zal er zijn met de Defence Attache van de Nederlandse ambassade kolonel Harold Jacobs. Uitgenodigd zijn ook De Hon. Consul in Zuid-Australië Mr W. Ouwens, de president van de RSL in S.A., brigadier Tim Hanna en Major Michael Harris als vertegenwoordiger van de 9e Brigade van het Australische leger in Z.A. Tijd: 10.30 a.m. voor de 11.00 plechtigheid.

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Federatie van Nederlandse Verenigingen in N.S.W. De federatie organiseert ook did jaar weer haar jaarlijkse, gesubsidierde, vakantie voor senioren in Stanwell Tops Conference Center van maandag 7 tot vrijdag 11 september 2015

Inschrijfformulieren voor senioren die nog goed ter been zijn (trappen kunnen lopen) aanvragen bij : Jan en Mia Joosten 02 9623 4503 of 02 96232569 64

St Marys Dutch Festival in Sydney was again a huge success. Dutchies flocked to the Rembrandt Dutch Club, ate their favourite Dutch food, played sjoelen, watched the dancing and sang along with the Dutch songs.

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Gregory map 239 E/5, UBD map 165 E/5

May 3, Sunday @ noon Festival Volunteers Thank you lunch May 6, Dutch Class starts 6.30pm

email: info@rembrandtdutchclub.com OPEN: iedere dinsdag van 10 tot 16 uur om te winkelen en een gratis 'bakkie'. iedere vrijdag vanaf 11 uur tot laat. er wordt gescrabbeld van 11 tot 16 uur. Vanaf 7,30 nm wordt er geklaverjast en gebiljard en het Rembrandtkoor repeteert.

Je kunt kaarten, biljarten, sjoelen, scrabbelen, holland focus lezen en ook zingen.

Iedereen is van harte welkom.

June 7, Klaverjas 50th Anniversary June 13 and 14, Cinderella - as never shown before. entry $5, to go to cancer research

Voor meer informatie over en foto’s van de gebeurtenissen in de Rembrandt Club ga naar www.rembrandtdutchclub.com

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Jan en Kaspar Luiken: Het Menselyk Bedryf

De spiegelmaker

The Mirror-maker

De fabricage van echt spiegelglas, gemaakt met een amalgaan van kwikzilver en tin, was in Luyken’s tijd erg ingewikkeld en gevaarlijk. We zien hier dan ook vrij zeker geen spiegelmaker maar een spiegellijstmaker. Deze spiegelmaker toont ons een spiegel, waarin niets weerspiegeld wordt. Alleen maar licht.

Overigens trekt de brede en rijk versierde lijst meer aandacht dan de spiegel. Zelf kijkt de ‘spiegelmaker’ naar een lege lijst op de vloer, waarin hij zichzelf zou hebben kunnen zien als er een spiegel in gezeten had. Hier zet Luyken ons aan het denken.

De spiegelmaker zelf ziet er een beetje vreemd uit, met zijn grote hoofd en zijn vooruitstekende onderlip. Zijn kleren, speciaal zijn broek – of beenwindsels, zijn uitstaande geklede jas en zijn tulbandachtige hoofddeksel weerspiegelen de versieringen van zijn spiegellijst. Niet alle spiegels zijn zo uitbundig versierd. Er hangen ook heel eenvoudige, ook boven de buitendeur. Er hangt een lijst zonder glas en aan de deurpost, op schouderhoogte nog wel een spiegel met glas. Een gevaarlijke plaats. Een knecht of leerling op een klein krukje buigt zich over zijn werk. We zien hier heel wat lijsten. Niet alleen de lijsten die de spiegelmaker ons voorhoudt, of de lijsten die overal staan en hangen. Ook de voordeur is een lijst voor een stukje Amsterdam. Waarin het water van de gracht de hemel weerspiegelt.

In de oorspronkelijke tekening was dat niet. Die vertoonde als achtergrond een binnenmuur met werklui en nog meer spiegels. Luyken heeft die in zijn ets opengebroken om het prachtige beeld in de deuropening in te lijsten: een typisch Amsterdamse gracht. Het spiegelgladde water, het wachtende bootje, de flanerende dames onder de bomen, de geveltjes met hun menselijke maat en de kerktoren, die als een wijsvinger naar de hemel wijst. De hemel waar Jan Luyken zo rotsvast in geloofde en waar zijn wereld zich aan spiegelde.

The making of real mirror glass, made with an amalgam of mercury and tin, was very complicated and dangerous in Luyken’s time. Here we see, almost certainly, no mirror maker, but a mirror frame maker. This mirror maker shows a mirror, without any reflections. Only light. Anyway, the wide and richly decorated frame attracts more attention than the mirror. The ‘mirror maker’ looks at an empty frame on the floor, he could have seen himself in this mirror if there had been any mirror glass in it. Here Luyken makes us think about it.

The mirror maker looks a bit strange, with his big head and his protruding lower lip. His clothes, especially his pants – or leg bindings, his wide-spread dressy coat and his turban like head dress, mirror the ornaments of his mirror frame. Not all mirrors have been framed as elaborately. Very simple ones are hanging there too, even above the front door. A frame without glass hangs on the door frame, at shoulder-height a mirror with glass is shown. A dangerous spot. An assistant or apprentice, sitting on a small stool, bends over his work. Many frames are on display here. Not just the frame the mirror maker shows us or the frames that are hanging or standing everywhere. The front door is also a frame of a part of Amsterdam. In which the sky is mirrored in the water of the canal. This was not in the original drawing. That showed an inside wall with workers and more mirrors. Luyken broke this open in his etching to frame the beautifull image in the door opening: a typical Amsterdam canal. The extremely smooth water, the waiting boat, the parading women under the trees, the facades with their human size and the church tower, pointing like an index finger to the sky. The heaven Jan Luyken so utterly believed in and mirrored his world.

Wie wijs is maakt een kleed bereid Dat in de eeuwigheid niet slijt.

Het Spiegelglas van deze tijd Vertoont het Beeld van Eeuwigheid, Het is een Schaduw van het Ware; Hou dit dan scherp in het vizier: Aan Schaduwen heb je geen zier, Slechts bij de bron is oogst te garen.

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Resemblance is depending On the reflected Being

The mirror glass of nowadays Shows image of Eternity; It’s just a shadow of the True; You’d better spot it carefully: Shadows are fruitless; but only The Source yields ample fruits for you.

Frans Hertoghs

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