Tag: MAARTEN VAN ROSSEM
Van Rossem tells about the Biblebelt: “When the Lord Jesus returns to earth, he might look up from so many churches”
The Netherlands is still ‘secular’. In the meantime, loyal churchgoers are a minority in society. At the last measurement in 2022, only 12 percent of the Dutch regularly went to…
800 Moluccans in Woerden: Theo lived for years with a family of ten in one big room
What about that again with the Dutch East Indies, the Moluccans and Indonesia? Until 1949, the Dutch East Indies was a Dutch colony, where the Royal Dutch East Indies Army…
Van Rossem tells about the arrival of Moluccans to Woerden: ‘We lived with a family of 10 in one large room’
What about that again with the Dutch East Indies, the Moluccans and Indonesia? Until 1949, the Dutch East Indies was a Dutch colony, where the Royal Dutch East Indies Army…
Van Rossem about Els Borst: ‘Perhaps the most effective minister of the past decades’
Bilthoven – In February 2014, the Netherlands was startled by the murder of former minister Els Borst. Borst lived in Bilthoven. She was trained as a doctor, worked for years…
Van Rossem tells: This is how the first highways in Utrecht emerged
Choices that Bert Toussaint knows everything about it as a historian at Rijkswaterstaat: “When the first concrete plans for motorways were made in the 1930s, there were about 60,000 cars…
Maarten van Rossem says goodbye to De Slimste Mens: ‘You are the 1229th who asks’
“You are the 1229th who asks it, but I have not been informed about that. To my knowledge there is no new candidate yet. The producer can delve with searching…
Van Rossem about the anger against the communists: ‘I heard the glass shattering’
Utrecht – The fifties. Time of reconstruction, of radio series for the whole family, of variety evenings and French chansons. Nice and calm, right? That’s how it seems. We also…
Maarten van Rossem: ‘Did you know that Utrecht has not one but three cathedrals?’
What is a cathedral? A cathedral is a church where a Catholic bishop resides. And that is literally because in every cathedral there is a richly decorated seat or an…
Van Rossem talks to the daughter of resistance fighter Henk Das: ‘The war haunted him all his life’
The fact that Das was not caught himself always remained a mystery to him. In the autumn of 1944, when everyone thinks that the war will soon be over, the…
Van Rossem talks to the daughter of resistance fighter Henk Das, who laid the wreath on Domplein tonight
The fact that Das was not caught himself always remained a mystery to him. In the autumn of 1944, when everyone thinks that the war will soon be over, the…