Tag: MAARTENVANROSSEM
Van Rossem Talks about Demka and the polluting industrial history of Zuilen
Many former employees remained proud of their former employer. Demka and Werkspoor were part of the ‘National Pride’, as were companies such as Fokker, Philips and DAF. Companies where employees…
Van Rossem Tells: in 1956 Russian aggression also caused a Jaarbeurs full of refugees
“Both refugee groups are actually there for the same reasons,” explains Van Rossem. “The violent repression of the Russians. Now in Ukraine, then in Hungary.” In the latest episode of…
Van Rossem tells about the doctors’ resistance in Kamp Amersfoort
Jan Roorda, a prominent general practitioner from Haarlem, was the founder of Medisch Cerzet. He wrote down his experiences in Kamp Amersfoort. From his diary: “I looked curiously back at…
Van Rossem Talks about the Baarn years of Escher
In the same Baarn Van Rossem meets Mark Veldhijsen, the manager of Escher’s large archive. Veldhijsen: “He was very satisfied in Baarn, especially about where he lived, so close to…
Van Rossem Tells: The last shipyard in the middle of the Netherlands
Sometime in the sixties of the last century, the shipyards and the activity that those yards brought with them disappeared from Vreeswijk and the surrounding area. Residents protested, but it…
Woerden exists 650 years: Van Rossem about the ‘Wonder of Woerden’
Today, exactly 650 years ago, Woerden received city rights. On March 12, 1372 Woerden received these rights from Duke Albrecht of Holland. And the reason they got those rights was…
Van Rossem Tells: Utrecht mainly owed the disaster year 1672 to itself
A water line is a line consisting of a continuous whole of areas to be flooded and fortifications – fortresses, fortresses – on the vulnerable parts in between. We call…