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General practitioner on Vlieland

Author: John Deen, 1e edition: december 2013, 96 pagina's (EAN 9789065232731)

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In the columns of general practitioner John Deen, he describes his experiences as an island doctor on Vlieland in his own unique way. The columns served as a model for the popular TV series starring Monique van de Ven.

Before coming to Vlieland, John Deen was a general practitioner in Goes in Zeeland for 22 years. He has manned the general practice on Vlieland for 12.5 years. A village with about 1,200 inhabitants in winter, but in summer it attracts thousands of tourists every week. This naturally results in beautiful village stories and exciting adventures for tourists who do not know the dangers of the island!

"You have nothing here. No hospital, no psychological or psychiatric help. Then a lot falls on the shoulders of the GP. But I have also found giving psychological help, for example, a nice part of my work'', says Deen.

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General practitioner on Vlieland (deel 2)

Author: John Deen, 1e edition: januari 2016, 96 pagina's (EAN 9789065234612)

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In his columns, GP John Deen describes his experiences as an island doctor on Vlieland in his own unique way. In this Part II more than 25 new columns about the sometimes village and sometimes turbulent life on Vlieland.

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John Deen was a general practitioner on the Wadden island of Vlieland for 12.5 years, until he said goodbye in 2004. This booklet is the second part* of a collection of columns he wrote between 2000 and 2006 in the Vliezier (the newspaper of Vlieland). Apart from the general practitioner and an ambulance, there is no medical care on Vlieland and the helicopter is used for urgent matters. And that with about 8000 tourists in the summer. This produces beautiful and exciting, but also philosophical stories. It is also not surprising on Vlieland that the next patient is a horse or a dog, because there is no vet. It has become an easy-to-read collection of beautiful village stories and exciting, life-saving deeds of the island doctor, who modeled for the hit TV series Dokter Deen. A clearly written and easy to read book.

A. Jeeninga, general practitioner

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General practitioner on Vlieland (deel 3)

Author: John Deen, 1e edition: oktober 2018 (EAN 9789065239815)

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In this third part of the stories of general practitioner John Deen we find many new stories about the beautiful island of Vlieland and its special inhabitants. Friendly, quirky, sometimes a bit anarchic! And John Deen looks back on his career as a general practitioner. And actually also as a veterinarian, psychologist and coach. The columns previously published in the local weekly Vliezier were the impetus for the popular TV series starring Monique van de Ven.

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About old roads

A journey through the history of Europe

Author: Mathijs Deen, 1e edition: februari 2018, 336 pages (EAN 9789400405158)

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People have been traveling through Europe for a million years. From the enigmatic gay antecessor who left his footprints on the coast of England to the traveler on today's highways. Under each footstep is a previous one, under each paved road a donkey path or cart track, under each footpath the imprints of a hunter or prey animal. Yet Europe's long thoroughfares play no role in the imagination or identity of its inhabitants. Why does the European have such an ambivalent relationship to the main routes of his continent? In search of the answer to that question, Mathijs Deen follows displaced people, highwaymen, pilgrims, fortune seekers, conquerors and racers who have made their way along the coasts and across the rivers and roads of Europe.

From Boekelo to Smolensk and from the first Europeans to the barons who raced on the public roads of Europe around 1900: Old Roads is an adventurous journey through Europe and a fascinating journey through time.

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Spanning Europe from north to south and west to east, the E-road network inspired Deen to take eight virtual journeys through Europe's history, following in the footsteps of people who traveled along one of those routes. Framed by personal memories of his avid motoring father, Deen first tells how the ideal formulated in the 1950s of clearly numbered and uniform long-distance routes, modeled on the American Interstates, gradually became bogged down in administrative muddle. Then, with great strides and great imagination, he takes the reader criss-cross through time and through Europe, from prehistoric times to the present, from one geographical extreme to the other. Each time Deen weaves his own experiences and discoveries along the virtual routes through the stories, which makes it particularly lively for the reader. The result is a kind of very entertaining historical travelogue. An extensive acknowledgment contains literature references.

Joost Jonker

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The Wadden

A history

Author: Mathijs Deen, 1e edition: oktober 2013, 304 pages (EAN 9789400401877

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The Wadden: a wild and changeable coastal area where nothing can be captured and everything moves. Anyone who wants to live or stay there has to adapt. In this book Mathijs Deen tells the story of farmers and fishermen, Roman warlords, Frisians, Vikings, lay brothers, pirates, refugees, fortune seekers, castaways, occupiers and bathers, who all in their own way conformed to the laws of water, wind and water. sand. The islands became not only a haven for imperturbable sailors or a hunting ground for beachcombers, but also a refuge for the persecuted, a nightmare for strategists, and a place where mainlanders feel the burdens and obligations of everyday life slip away. Deen describes this unique history poetically, his historical perspective sharp and his story compelling.

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The author (journalist, radio presenter of the VPRO) goes deeply into the origin and development of the Dutch Wadden Sea through the centuries. After a short introduction with personal experiences, fourteen chapters show the origin of the Wadden Sea from the Ice Age, the habitation and life, the lords and kings, the consequences of the wars, the arrival of bathers and above all how everything was influenced by the of the water kept changing, to the attention. Full of facts and anecdotes, the story of this moving area is woven. Based on written historical texts, information from scientists and residents (from Gaius Plinius, the chronicles of Egmond to farmer Talsma), the reader is told a history. Where there are gaps in the facts, the author fills them in to the best of his ability. A clear, very well-arranged history, in which the possible future of the area is discussed in the afterword. A delight for a mudflat enthusiast as a reference work or background information. With overview maps in the covers. No illustrations, no register.

Jacolien Zwart

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Among the people

Author: Mathijs Deen, 1e edition: augustus 2016, 224 pages (EAN 9789400407428)

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John is a farmer. He lives alone. His parents are dead. To dispel the loneliness, he places a personal ad. He's looking for a woman for entitlement, for sex, and if all goes well, maybe even a child. But the woman who responds has plans of her own. She only wants an orderly existence in a remote place. For her, the move to the farm is an escape from the Randstad and a reckoning with her past. Not much claim fits into that and certainly not a child.

Among the people is a novel in which tradition and self-determination are at odds. It produces a conflict that is fought with varying results. The only thing the characters seem to have in common is the stubborn resolve to stick together.

'Somewhere, far to the north, against the delta dike stands a farm like a waiting workhorse with its ass to the sea. It is a large brown rump of reed, without a door and without a window. From the gutter at eye level, the roof rises steeply to the ridge, which is so high that it stands above the lee of the dike, exposed to the sea breeze. The nearest house is five kilometers inland and on the other side of the dike, only crabs and flatfish live in a silted creek. It's winter and it's cold.'

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Not performed Affairs

Author: Mathijs Deen, 1e edition: februari 1997, 114 pages (EAN 9789054520405)

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'Thank God I can leave tomorrow. It's going to storm and rain, I heard. It's not all bad. It's a matter of chasing along with Å like maddened freaks, never staying anywhere more than ten minutes unless to eat. It is certain in advance that we will never arrive and stay anywhere satisfactorily. That's what it all started. There is nothing dramatic, on the contrary, but it is as it is.' In matters that have not been accomplished, the debut of Mathijs Deen (1962), much is undertaken but rarely completed. The e-mails, letters and reports that the main character W. Zwaan writes to friends and loved ones testify to a life without control that takes place against the backdrop of university, television, radio and a few uninspiring travel destinations at home and abroad. Unfinished business is an exciting book about fresh reluctance and unfulfilled desire.

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This debut novel has the very clear structure of four text types, each with its own theme. In the first type of text, the main character, a university lecturer, writes in 'writing' through E-mails to his beloved about his longing for her. Then he writes letters to his friends about the futility of his work. In the form of reports, he reports on his failed walk on the beach, undertaken to complete an undertaking at least once (see the title). Finally, he writes a few short stories about the bizarre thinking of a maddened professor. The relationship between text types and themes is rather superficial. As a result, the writer (1962) hardly succeeds in portraying the directionlessness of the protagonist's life in a convincing literary way. Yet there is an air of endearing poeticism about the book because of its unadorned description of basic human experiences like infatuation and fatherly love.

Drs. J.G. Heymans

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Three Days Vienna For Two People

Author: Mathijs Deen, 1e edition: november 1999, 148 pages (EAN 9789054520665)

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In 'Three Days of Vienna For Two Persons', Deen shows how his characters merrily muddle through a world full of good intentions, inadequacy and misunderstanding.

Four regional writers, who don't want to get along, kidnap a publisher from Amsterdam and get entangled in a far too big and tragic misunderstanding. A brooding dishwasher from the kitchen of an international train makes a futile attempt at happiness. A taciturn farmer receives 60 men from the top of the business community in the barn of his remote farm to build sand castles. A patient discharged from the hospital gets lost in the depths of his own city on his way home.

Four novellas, in short, with cheerful and moving stories from life itself.

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The writer (1962) has included four stories by himself in this collection. Two of them are short (less than twenty pages), the other two more approaching the size of novellas. In the first story, aspiring writers feel left out because their publisher doesn't respond adequately to their submissions. So they decide to kidnap him. The second, somewhat longer story is about organizing a kind of survival day for managers (not as usual in the Ardennes, but in a Frisian farm) and the accompanying complications and personal problems of the organizers involved. The story of an unlucky dishwasher on an international train and the dramatic, almost surreal journey home from the hospital of a doomed man in the title story are the subjects of the other stories. It is not easy to follow the often bizarre train of thought of the writer. The collection is not without quality in parts, but as a whole it is somewhat unbalanced: every now and then the reader has the idea of reading a not bad school essay instead of an adult collection of short stories. The author has already published several novels and collections of short stories.

Drs. Fieke Nugteren

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Brutus is hungry

Author: Mathijs Deen, 1e edition: september 2011, 96 pages (EAN 9789060058213)

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With playful ease Mathijs Deen catches historical characters at an uprooted moment in their lives in these miniatures. In a few sentences, Deen manages to evoke a world in which historical events are presented in an unusual light.

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Beautiful literary miniatures, 44 in number, with a historical fact as the underlying core. In roughly 300 words (two pages), the author (1962) sketches the back of history in a poetic style with a fragment of 'human interest', a personal anecdote, in which food and animals are woven as a subtle thread through almost all stories ( cf. title). The paintings are arranged chronologically, from 'Bessen, Doggerland 32,000 BC.' to 'Ribs & Pizza, Maloy 2001', framed with two primal stories about apples. Knowledge of history is certainly not a requirement to enjoy the miniatures. The primary focus is on the literary taste of the reader, who can experience a momentum in history through the images and moods: the siege of Groenlo, the murder of the De Witt brothers, Napoleon's campaign to Russia, etc. An impressive experience! Since his debut novel 'Onverrichter zake' (1997), the author has published novels, stories and historical audiobooks. He is editor/presenter of the radio program OVT - about history. Small pressure.

Drs. P. van der Haar

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Mother Do

Author: Mathijs Deen, 1e edition: november 1997 (EAN 9789054520474)

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John is a farmer. He lives alone. His parents are dead. To dispel the loneliness, he places a personal ad. He's looking for a woman for entitlement, for sex, and if all goes well, maybe even a child. But the woman who responds has plans of her own. She only wants an orderly existence in a remote place. For her, the move to the farm is an escape from the Randstad and a reckoning with her past. This does not fit too much claim and certainly no child.

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Jan is a farmer and always claimed by his mother. After the death of his parents, he places a personal ad in the hope of finding companionship. The woman who responds, however, is looking for solitude to deal with her past. She sees the remote farm as an ideal means, and has whole plans to sidetrack Jan. They are constantly in conflict with each other, but their desire to realize their ideals (through the other) turns out to be greater than the annoyance at the presence of that other. And in the end, something of understanding appears to grow between them. This tragi-comic novel portrays two people who each want to go their own way, but who regard the other as indispensable. They have described high-rise conflicts, often with a lot of humor. Nice, but especially contemporary to see how people's independence turns out to be a fake.

Marian Verstappen

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Working right away

Author: Mathijs Deen, 1e edition: 1997, 64 pages (EAN 9789054520443)

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Everyday life is a procession of devious trivialities. Decisive events saunter past at their leisure, disguised as a trifle. A casual remark, an outing born of boredom, a piece of trousers: they seem like things of little significance. Until they go to work.

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Dreams come True

Auhor: Mathijs Deen, 1e edition: november1999, 96 pages (EAN 9789054520672)

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People who gradually turn a conversation into other people, arms that don't turn out to be wings, rooms that suffer from moods, roads that lead to nowhere, houses that go on and on, dens that turn into islands and of course all those impossibly cumbersome things that at any cost. costs to be made.

Dreams are better off never coming true.

In DREAMS BECOME WHERE you will find a selection of columns that Mathijs Deen wrote in 1998 and 1999 and read for Radio Noord.

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Anna van Saksen

Disowned bride of Willem van Oranje

Author: Femke Deen, 1e edition: september 2018, 418 pages (EAN 9789045024721)

Femke Deen (1975) is a historian, specialized in the history of the sixteenth century. She obtained her doctorate for a study on public debate and propaganda during the Dutch Revolt.

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"Anna van Saksen", by historian Femke Deen, tells about the life of Anna van Saksen, the second wife of William of Orange. William van Oranje was successively married to four wives, three of whom have a more or less impeccable reputation. But Anna van Saksen (mother of the later stadtholder Prince Maurits), has gone down in history as depraved and selfish, an adulterous woman who eventually loses her mind.

lost. This new biography of the most maligned woman in Dutch history shows that Anna van Saksen is in fact a strong and independent

woman. Anna's ultimately tragic fate was not only due to herself, but also to the behavior of William van Oranje and de Nassaus. "Anna van Saksen" chronicles the tragic demise of a wealthy and coveted princess who was literally stripped of everything – and it sheds new light on William of Orange.

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Biography of Anna van Saksen (1544-1577), the second wife of William van Oranje. Anna grew up at the court of her aunt and uncle, electors of Saxony. Despite her physical disability, she was a coveted princess because of her high birth and wealth. At sixteen she married Willem twelve years her senior. She became the mother of Prince Maurits. Her marriage was marked by quarrels and adultery. It ended dramatically; Oranje rejected her, she lost her mind and died young in a bricked-up room in her parental castle in Dresden. Until now, the view of Anna was not very nuanced. She would have been either an ambitious alcoholic or the victim of her husband's evil intent. The author, a historian with a doctorate, conducted new archival research and adjusted that caricature. She depicts the tragic life of the temperamental Anna, confused between the interests of her family and those of her husband, in a politically turbulent period. With family tree, illustrations, color photo section, family trees, bibliography, endnotes and index.

Dr. Nelleke Manneke

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Heart of Glass

Story about a Loverboy

Author: Femke Deen, 1e edition: mei 2004, 128 pages (EAN 9789025109301)

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Maartje is in love, for the first time in her life really in love. Illias is personable, sweet and attentive - in one word perfect. And he is also in love with Maartje, that has to be the case. Otherwise he wouldn't shower her with presents, would he? And call her ten times a day? Maartje is convinced: Illias is the only one who really understands her!

But then Illias starts to ask a lot of Maartje. And she sees sides of him that she would rather not see. Before she knows it, she's in deep trouble. Deeper than she ever thought possible. The question is whether she can get out of this. And whether she wants it. Because Illias is everything to her. However?

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Maartje is really in love for the first time, with a dazzling boy who wears designer clothes and drives an expensive car. When she gets a ring from him, she completely belongs to him and no longer to her friends and her parents. But like so many girls who are lonely and naive, take a liking to looks and crave attention, she walks straight into the arms of a loverboy. At first glance, this paperback with a photo of a couple in love at the front seems like a no-brainer. Still, for the target audience that fits the description of the main character, the story can be a warning to look closely at the motives of the person you fall head over heels in love with. At the end of the book it is explained what loverboys are, what they want and how they work. Addresses are also given of aid agencies that provide information about and take care of girls who have become victims of loverboys. Moderate style. From approx. 14 years.

W. van Es-Kik

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Amsterdam 'Murder Dam' 1566-1578

Public debate and propaganda in Amsterdam during the Dutch Revolt

Author: Femke Deen, (EAN 9789089647054)

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Media and communication played an indispensable role in the Dutch Revolt. On a large scale, the parties to the conflict use different media to involve a wide audience in the events. This allowed for a lively public debate about political and religious developments. This debate, in which local themes and actors played a decisive role, largely determined the political agenda. In Moordam. Public debate and propaganda in Amsterdam during the Dutch Revolt (1566-1578) Femke Deen analyzes the use of communication forms such as petitions, proclamations, pamphlets, songs and propaganda letters in Amsterdam during the early years of the Dutch Revolt. By examining at a local level how the parties use communication tools for their own purposes, it becomes apparent how sophisticated their media strategies were. The form and content of the debate were largely determined by local aspects. For example, the existing balance of power in the city influenced the extent to which the parties could control the debate. The parties were also guided by local sentiments and fears in their choice of media and messages. This constant exposure to political arguments ultimately resulted in a critical and well-informed audience.

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This is one to never forget

Diary and letters of Helga Deen 1943

Author: Femke Deen, 1e edition: maart 2007, 157 pages (EAN 9789050188418)

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'Dear, dear boy, let your thoughts and desires cross mine…', Helga Deen writes on 8 July 1943 in a letter to her friend Kees. These are her last words from camp Westerbork, just before she was murdered in Sobibor.

Helga Deen kept a diary in camp Vught, a moving and moving testimony of daily life in a concentration camp. She is torn between love and disgust, between despair and optimism. Suddenly robbed of everything that was familiar to her, she writes impressively about how she tries to live as dignified and inspired as possible.

More than sixty years later, Helga's diary and letters were found in a school bag, by the son of the friend she loved so passionately. The international press gathered in Tilburg when it became known that the Regional Archive Helga had taken over Danish estate. The archive surrounded diaries and letters with the utmost care, had historical research carried out and finally presented the manuscript to Balans Publishers for publication. Comparisons with Anne Frank and Etty Hillesum are necessary, but despite perhaps the same compassion and attitude, a very unique voice can be heard here: intense, lyrical, desperate, annoyed, afraid sometimes, but vital to the very end.

Helga Deen's diary and letters were transcribed and annotated by Rob Tempelaars. The historian Ronald Peeters wrote an afterword about Tilburg and Helga Deen.

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On June 1, 1943, at the age of 18, the Jewish Helga Deen from Tilburg was taken to concentration camp Vught with her German mother, her Dutch father and brother Klaus. There she starts a diary and writes letters to her friend Kees and their best friends. Helga's parents lived in Stettin, Germany, where her mother was a doctor, but after Hitler's seizure of power they moved to Tilburg, where her father came from. Helga goes to the HBS and meets Kees there. From Vught, the family will be taken to Westerbork on 2 July. They hope for a postponement, but on July 13 they will be transported to Sobibor concentration camp, where they will be gassed on July 16. The diary and letters were found after Kees van den Berg's death. The whole is now well introduced and edited and is followed by a very informative afterword about Helga's parents, their family and Kees. The emotional diary is only 22 pages, but with the letters it has great eloquence due to the contrast between Helga's early love and the fate she experiences. With notes and black and white photos.

Drs. Madelon de Swart

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World War II Travel Guide

(co-)Author: Femke Deen, 1e edition: april 2005 (ISBN 9789035128019)

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It is difficult to write anything new about the Second World War when you consider the number of books written on this subject. That is why the authors of this travel guide asked the critical question whether it was useful to publish another book about this eventful period. Yet they came to the conclusion that it is not that difficult to make a substantial contribution to the existing range of books about the Second World War.

Almost everyone has read about certain subjects of the Second World War, such as the bombing of Rotterdam, the persecution of the Jews or the invasion of Normandy. But the context in which everything took place is often unclear and unknown. According to the authors, there was therefore a great need for a book about the Second World War in the Netherlands that is accessible and appeals to the imagination of young and old, as well as does justice to the complicated reality. “Travel Guide to the Second World War” was written with the intention of meeting that need.

The book is divided into four parts: The raid; Adaptation, Collaboration and Prosecution; Confrontation and resistance; Procrastination and liberation. Each part consists of three chapters. For example, part three about confrontation and resistance consists of the following chapters: The April-May strikes; From hiding paradise to hiding hole; Armed resistance.

Each chapter consists of two reports, which shed light on a part of the Second World War from the perspective of a location or area in the Netherlands. Chapter 1 deals, for example, with the German advance through Brabant. Each chapter has an introduction and a conclusion with some tips to read further, addresses to visit and sites to read/watch further. In between, separate text blocks are also included that explain details from the events described in the chapter. In the chapter on the battle at the Grebbenberg, for example, a text block focuses on the war story of Ouwehands Dierenpark.

“Travel guide for the Second World War” contains both known and unknown stories and thus provides an interesting overview of the Dutch war history. Information about the battle of Arnhem or the battle around the Grebbeberg can be found in many more books, but events are also described that are (almost) unknown to the general public. For example, attention is paid to 'the bunker drama' in Kamp Vught in which 74 women were crammed into a space of 9 square meters by the Germans. For example, something is also written about the revolt of the Georgians on Texel who no longer wanted to fight for their German masters.

The authors are also not afraid to describe subjects that used to be covered up. For example, attention is paid to the mistreatment of collaborators and NSB members in the reception camps after the war. More is also told about the undignified treatment that the Polish paratroopers brigade received after the failed battle of Arnhem.

Like “Route '40-'45” by Jeroen Wielaert, this book is not a traditional travel guide, but a collection of stories about places and sights that recall the war. Photos are also included in “Travel Guide to the Second World War”, but the number is limited and not all photos contribute equally clearly to the story. Unfortunately, this book is not very suitable for the real battlefield tour participant, because it does not contain clear overview or route maps.

The authors have succeeded in writing an accessible book for young and old through the use of language, illustrations and short stories. Due to the mix of known and unknown reports and the references to further literature and museums, the book is also interesting for connoisseurs of the Second World War. The themes and chapters are very diverse and lead through different areas, creating a multifaceted picture of the Second World War in the Netherlands. In that sense, the authors have succeeded in meeting the need they have outlined.

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In the Travel Guide for the Second World War, three young authors, Maurice Blessing, Femke Deen and Marieke Prins, tell the story of the Second World War in the Netherlands through the Dutch landscape, city and country.

The starting point is always the expressiveness of the story itself. This guide is therefore primarily a collection of appealing and revealing 'historical' reports that tell the great story of the German occupation of the Netherlands.

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Three young authors tell the story of the Second World War in the Netherlands based on a series of historical reports. People and their experiences in certain places are central. Four themes: invasion, adaptation, resistance and liberation; within twelve chapters with reports on places where significant events, large and small, took place in the war, with eyewitness accounts, background information, short articles (about Philips, Jew hunters, Titus Brandsma, raids, Englandvaarders, Ouwehands Zoo, etc.), and route descriptions of walks. At the end of each chapter, the Continue Reading section and relevant (internet) addresses. The topics discussed include the battle around the Grebbeberg, the bombing of Rotterdam, the Georgian mutiny on Tessel, the strike at Stork in Hengelo, Camp Vught, hiding places, the raid on the prison in Assen, the battle of Arnhem, liberation drama on the Dam and internment of NSB members in Fort de Bilt. With black and white photos from then and now, maps and a place name index. Fascinating, very accessible written and classified, informative war (travel) guide that brings the Second World War closer because of the other (local) approach.

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Education science

Learning at work, around work, before work

Author: Erik Deen, 3e edition: november 2017 (EAN 9789462154872)

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A gift from the desert

stories for 1001 children

Author: R. Deen (and Fred Houtzager), 3e edition: september 2002, 29 pages (EAN 9789055733453), Psychology

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This book is published by a foundation that promotes 'philosophy communication'. It is intended for use in primary education. As far as the content is concerned, 'stories from all over the world' and 'all cultures' and 'drama(education)' shake hands. The structure is simple and clear. The stories are offered for three age categories: from 4 to 6, from 7 to 9, from 10 to 13 years. In terms of distribution over the school year, the four seasons are followed. Around each story is indicated what the possibilities are for processing in a drama lesson. The content can be seen as a complete course for drama education / philosophy / spiritual movements; however, it can also be used for stand-alone lessons. The book has a useful drama ABC in which almost all concepts related to drama are explained. The elaboration is clear, easy to use and is packed with tips and ideas. Everything shows that the authors have a lot of teaching experience in the aforementioned fields. They have sensed the question of anyone who works with groups of children (both in and out of school!) and who want to give substance to drama activities in a well-considered way.

Mart Seerden

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Analysis of Transport Phenomena

Author: William M. Deen, 1e edition: februari 1998, 624 pages (EAN 9780199740253)

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Analysis of Transport Phenomena, International Second Edition, provides a unified treatment of momentum, heat, and mass transfer, emphasizing the concepts and analytical techniques that apply to these transport processes.

The international second edition has been revised to reinforce the progression from simple to complex topics and to better introduce the applied mathematics that is needed both to understand classical results and to model novel systems. A common set of formulation, simplification, and solution methods is applied first to heat or mass transfer in stationary media and then to fluid mechanics, convective heat or mass transfer, and systems involving various kinds of coupled fluxes.

An ideal text for graduate level courses in transport phenomena for chemical engineers,Analysis of Transport Phenomena provides a unified treatment of momentum, heat, and mass transfer, emphasizing the concepts and analytical techniques that apply to all of these transport processes.

The first few chapters establish the tools needed for later analyses while also covering heat and mass transfer in stationary media. The similarities among the molecular or diffusive transport mechanisms--heat conduction, diffusion of chemical species, and viscous transfer of momentum--are highlighted. Conservation equations for scalar quantites are derived first in general form, and then used to obtain the governing equations for total mass, energy, and chemical species. The scaling and order-of-magnitude concepts which are crucial in modeling are also introduced. Certain key methods for solving the differential equations in transport problems, including similarity, perturbation, and finite Fourier transform techniques, are described using conduction and diffusion problems as examples.

Following chapters are devoted to fluid mechanics, beginning with fundamental equations for momentum transfer and then discussing unidirectional flow, nearly unidirectional (lubrication) flow, creeping flow, and laminar boundary layer flow. Forced-convection heat and mass transfer in laminar flow, multicomponent energy and mass transfer, free convection, and turbulence are also covered. The appendix summarizes vector and tensor operations and relations involving various coordinate systems.

Based on twenty years of teaching and extensive class testing, Analysis of Transport Phenomena offers students both extensive coverage of the topic and inclusion of modern examples from bioengineering, membrane science, and materials processing. It is mathematically self-contained and is also unique in its treatment of scaling and approximation techniques and its presentation of the finite Fourier transform method for solving partial differential equations.

Features

Explains classical methods and results, preparing students for engineering practice and more advanced study or research
Covers everything from heat and mass transfer in stationary media to fluid mechanics, free convection, and turbulence
Improved organization, including the establishment of a more integrative approach
Emphasizes concepts and analytical techniques that apply to all transport processes
Mathematical techniques are introduced more gradually to provide students with a better foundation for more complicated topics discussed in later chapters

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Introduction to Chemical Engineering Fluid Mechanics

Author: William M. Deen, 1e edition: augustus 2016 624 pages (EAN 9781316577578)

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Designed for introductory undergraduate courses in fluid mechanics for chemical engineers, this stand-alone textbook illustrates the fundamental concepts and analytical strategies in a rigorous and systematic, yet mathematically accessible manner. Using both traditional and novel applications, it examines key topics such as viscous stresses, surface tension, and the microscopic analysis of incompressible flows which enables students to understand what is important physically in a novel situation and how to use such insights in modeling. The many modern worked examples and end-of-chapter problems provide calculation practice, build confidence in analyzing physical systems, and help develop engineering judgment. The book also features a self-contained summary of the mathematics needed to understand vectors and tensors, and explains solution methods for partial differential equations. Including a full solutions manual for instructors available at www.cambridge.org/deen, this balanced textbook is the ideal resource for a one-semester course.

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'Professor Deen has provided many examples illustrating the principles of fluid dynamics in a clear manner, which highlights both important ideas and their generality. A student should find the approach to be one that assists learning and understanding, and an instructor will find many examples, ideas and quality explanations.' Howard Stone, Princeton University, New Jersey 'It is very well written, the explanations are clear and detailed, and it contains numerous original 'real-world' examples and problems.' Andreas Acrivos, Stanford University, California Professor Deen has provided many examples illustrating the principles of fluid dynamics in a clear manner, which highlights both important ideas and their generality. A student should find the approach to be one that assists learning and understanding, and an instructor will find many examples, ideas and quality explanations. Howard Stone, Princeton University, New Jersey It is very well written, the explanations are clear and detailed, and it contains numerous original 'real-world' examples and problems. Andreas Acrivos, Stanford University, California

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Analysis of Transport Phenomena

Author: Sophie Deen, 1e edition: oktober 2016, (EAN 9781912022540)

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Analysis of Transport Phenomena

Author: Sanne van Heijst, 1e edition: april 2016, (EAN 9789045031361)

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The title already indicates that the book tries to combine two storylines, on the one hand the life story of Gerda Nothmann, who was imprisoned in the Vught transit camp from 2 July 1943 to 2 June 1944 and during most of her stay formed part of the so-called Philips-Kommando, and on the other hand a clarification of the significance of that Philips-Kommando in the survival possibilities of Jewish prisoners in the camp. Sanne van Heijst (1980), who after her studies in business administration worked for the National Monument Foundation Kamp Vught, in her debut as a writer succeeded in making a beautiful and informative book, with the caveat that something more about the war efforts of Philips to tell than the author does.

Gerda Nothmann was born in 1927 into a prosperous and intellectual Jewish environment. Her father Max Nothmann is a promoted judge at a district court. Her mother Adele is a descendant of the Ginsberg-Sachs family, a prominent merchant and banking family and one of the most prominent Jewish families, which historian Sebastian Haffner describes as an elite within the Weimar Republic, almost a "second aristocracy." The children Gerda and Vera grow up in an atmosphere in which culture, classical education and patriotism are the central elements. The children are twelve and ten years old in 1939 when their parents put them on a plane to the Netherlands with the aim of staying with foster families in Breda for a few months. Gerda ends up with the childless couple Swaep, who must have had the best intentions to help a befriended couple from Berlin, but where Gerda experiences only a little cordial atmosphere. Vera, on the other hand, already a much more carefree child than her somewhat older sister, ends up with the Koperberg family, which has a daughter of Vera's age, where she is immediately lovingly welcomed into the family. The parents, meanwhile, remain busy in Berlin to try to effect an emigration from the capital of the Third Reich, but in the end they will never succeed in achieving a joint emigration to America. At the end of 1940 they are so convinced that it will work that they let Vera come back to Berlin from Breda, which was relatively safe at that time. In the course of 1943, Max, Adele and Vera will be deported to Auschwitz and probably sent to the gas chambers immediately upon arrival.

Gerda has meanwhile moved to Tilburg in February 1940, where she finds shelter with the Jewish family Deen, which has a son and daughter of the same age and where she is immediately fully integrated into the family. The transition must have been enormous for her from the enormous wealth in Villa Augusta in the most dignified district of fashionable Berlin, via the not impoverished couple Swaep in their spacious and beautifully situated home in Breda, to the penniless Deen family in their home. terraced house in the gray factory city of Tilburg. However, Gerda really enjoys it, learns Dutch quickly and gets excellent grades at school. However, further education is quickly made impossible due to measures imposed on the Jewish population by the German occupier. In June 1943 the Deen family and their boarder were ordered to report to Camp Vught. There Gerda manages to get a job at the Philips-Kommando, something she initially wants to refuse. The Deen family has to travel on to Westerbork and sixteen-year-old Gerda wants to stay with them. Käthe Deen, from Germany and trained as a doctor there, manages to convince her to stay. The Deen family will eventually be killed in Auschwitz in 1943.

Camp Vught is built in the middle of a forest in the course of 1942. In January 1943 the SS takes the so-called Konzentrationslager Herzogenbusch into use for housing mainly political prisoners, to a lesser extent as a transit camp for Jews from the south of the Netherlands. In total, more than 31,000 men, women and children were imprisoned for a short or longer period in the period January 1943 - September 1944, including 12,000 Jews. About 750 of them died in the camp during that period as a result of exhaustion, abuse or execution.

Soon after the opening of the camp, an urgent request came from Berlin to director Frits Philips to set up a workshop for prisoners in Kamp Vught. The workshop will have to contribute to the needs of the German armies by manufacturing radio tubes, for which the German factories no longer have the manpower to meet the demand. That question does not come out of the blue, by the way. As early as 1933, Philips was Europe's largest manufacturer of radio tubes (the predecessors of today's chips). Radio tubes form the core of radar systems, wireless telephony, targeting equipment, radio beacons, on-board radios and transmitting installations, in short of all equipment with which the destructive power of the army, air force and navy is multiplied. Due to a patent dispute with Germany's largest radio tube producer (Telefunken), Philips produces virtually no radio tubes for Germany. Officially at least, because Philips does have large interests in Germany through subsidiaries and is not unimportant within the total rearmament program that Hitler sets in motion from 1935. In an article of 17 January 1996 in De Groene Amsterdammer ('The War of Frits'), Pieter Lakeman gives a long summary of Philips' commercial interests in Germany and of their great value for the German war economy. The author therefore concludes that Frits Philips was a rescuer on a small scale (the Kommando), but can be held responsible on a large scale for extending the war by many months. Not a bad comparison. The book does not mention these and similar critical views on the role of Philips.

In the war, the support of an important producer such as Philips is even more important and the Germans are therefore very interested in moving the company to start producing for them within the Kamp Vught. Mr Frits would have refused this at first, but agreed after internal consultation and with the consent of the resistance. He thinks this will serve the interests of the company and its employees, but also help the prisoners and perhaps sabotage the German war machinery a bit. He attaches the following conditions to his cooperation:

Philips is in charge of the workshop and determines what is made;
Philips employees are allowed to enter and leave the camp freely;
Philips determines which prisoners are deployed and how many;
Philips provides the workers with a hot snack every day;
Philips pays the prisoners for their work.

To the great surprise of Philips' management, the SS camp leadership agrees to these conditions, but given the great importance for the German war industry it is not so surprising that the demands are quickly met. Philips had to pay the SS for every prisoner employed: 3 guilders per day for an unskilled and 4.50 guilders for a skilled prisoner. On February 22, 1943, the Philips Special Workshop B677 takes off. The prisoners who work there form the Philips-Kommando. In total, more than 3,100 men and women, including 600 Jews, worked there. Gerda was one of them.

On June 2, 1944, she and the other Jews are taken to Auschwitz, where the 'Philips girls' are immediately taken to a special barracks as a whole group, a unique event in the history of the camp. Already a month later, the entire group is sent to Reichenbach, to do the same work for Telefunken as before for the major Dutch competitor. From February 1945 to May 1945, the group roams northern Germany on a forced flight from the advancing Russian armies. After the liberation in Schleswig-Holstein, she can regain her strength in Sweden. From there she leaves for the United States in February 1946, where she first goes to college and then starts a family with Charles Luner. From the beginning she has talked about her war experiences in the US. In 1990 she wrote her life story for her children and grandchildren. Sanne van Heijst was able to draw on this story.

It has become an impressive life story about a tragic life. Of course, there is a happy ending because the war has survived, but as with everyone who returned from the extermination camps, too much has been destroyed to really speak of a happy ending. Gerda has lost her entire family, her foster family has also disappeared from the face of the earth, the family fortune was completely taken by the German government in the thirties and early forties and, above all, a great psychological blow was dealt. When Gerda looks back on her life in a letter to a friend in 1993, she remarks: "I've had a good life, as good as can be expected for someone who never got over the trauma of her experiences in 1933-1945. I still have nightmares, and very often migraines, and it hasn't always been easy for Charles. Something in me has died. So I've never been able to be really happy. But I have a good husband, good children, good sons-in-law , wonderful grandchildren, though they live so far away."

Gerda and all the other Philips girls with her always let us know that they are grateful to Philips for their efforts during the war, in the conviction that they all owe their lives to the Eindhoven company. Even the few of those who are critical of the company (after all, it would have deserved the Kommando at the expense of the prisoners) recognize that fact. Others, and Gerda Nothmann belongs to that group, believe that they owe their lives to Philips, but that rescuing a group of Jewish prisoners is not a goal of the company, only a pleasant side effect after the war. Of the 496 Jews who were in the Kommando in June 1944, 382 eventually survive the war and the role of Philips in this is undeniable. Frits Philips receives the Yad-Vashem award for this in 1996, an award that is never given lightly by Israel. In Appendix 2 of the book, Dr. D.B. Jochems convincingly explain the efforts of the Philips-Kommando and the motives underlying the award.

Nevertheless, the general conclusion is that the company took a leap of faith under German pressure at the time, with the company's interest as the most important criterion. The establishment of the Philips-Kommando was therefore definitely not an act of resistance and Frits Philips was not a Dutch Oskar Schindler. However, the Kommando's working method is also not an example of collaboration (the Lakeman also acknowledges that, as he and his kindred spirits are concerned with the role that the Philips group plays on a macro-economic level), because this is not entirely willful. walked the German leash and demonstrably did a lot to improve the living conditions and therefore the survival chances of prisoners.

Sanne van Heijst wrote the book on behalf of the Philips-Kommando Concentration Camp Vught ’43-’44 Foundation, which leads to the suspicion that the somewhat rosy Philips version of the story is followed a little too much. For example, a fairly detailed report is made of how the three Philips leaders in the camp (Carel Braakman, Dirk Wissink and Bram de Wit) with great bravado and cunning always outsmarted the evil camp commander, while the actual course of events was that that commander Chmielewski forced the company to hire Jews and women in the labor camp. The writer could have been a little more critical here; she does touch on the criticisms of the company, but the negative comments are given considerably less space than the descriptions of the exploits of Philips and the aforementioned trio. Let alone addressing the very harsh criticism that has been leveled at the company from various quarters. If, in view of the title of the book, the focus was so much on the Philips Command within Kamp Vught, it would have been appropriate to go into more detail about the criticisms. It would have made the excellent book that Van Heijst delivered even more powerful.

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