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IN honour of Remembrance Day, Jacqueline Bernard reflects on her years growing up in Holland during the Second World War.
A West Vancouver woman remembers
A petite woman stood up at the recent North Shore Veterans’ Reunion, a microphone in one hand, a cane gripped firmly in the other. She was there to thank the veterans for the liberation of Holland, her homeland, during the Second World War. Jacqueline Ypma was born in Holland in 1926. The family lived in the country during the
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Laura Anderson week and in Amsterdam on weekends, where their life was a round of museums, galleries and concerts; and, for Jacqueline, her Girl Guide troop. In May 1940, the Nazis invaded. Jacqueline was 13 years old. With the occupation, Jacqueline, her sister Liesbet, and
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her parents and grandparents lived together in the country, sheltering a Jewish boy whose parents were hidden near by. (Most Dutch boys were also hidden. Otherwise, they would be shipped to Germany to fight or work). As the war and the years dragged on, life under the Nazi boot was difficult and dangerous. The basics of life disappeared. There was no elastic for clothing or rubber for tires. Food was scarce. On weekends, Jacqueline and her sister joined other girls, carrying valuables into the farmlands to trade for food, riding for miles on bicycles with tires made from lengths of rubber garden hose clamped around the metal rims of their wheels. “Holland was under
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