Tag: Rossem
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…
Van Rossem about how 120 police officers came to evacuate the Dennendal facility
Den Dolder – When we think about care for people with intellectual disabilities, we often think of initiatives such as restaurants run by people with disabilities, small assisted living projects…
Van Rossem Narrates: Thinking of Marsman, Maarten sees wide rivers
Zeist – Perhaps the name Hendrik Marsman no longer means much to us, but there is a good chance that most of us know the first words of his most…
Van Rossem Tells: Major dike breach and the oldest bond in the world (which still earns interest!)
Tull en ‘t Waal – The high water at the Lekdijk has been keeping us busy for days now. In 1624 things went seriously wrong with the dike there. It…
Maarten Van Rossem and Rutger Bregman philosophize about the next 80 years
Doomsday scenarios of 11 billion people on our earth do not seem to come true. Scientists show that the world population is shrinking sooner and faster than expected. We now…
Maarten 80! Van Rossem talks about Utrecht Politics and Pim Fortuyn
The party’s popularity also declined sharply locally. In the 2006 elections, the party plummeted from 14 to 3 seats. “The cake was gone,” Broos Schnetz explains, “we have had our…
Maarten 80! Van Rossem talks about the ‘bankrupt’ city
Utrecht – Don’t panic! The city of Utrecht has never really been bankrupt. Not that we weren’t in a bad position, but cities in the Netherlands simply cannot go bankrupt.…
Maarten 80! Van Rossem talks about childcare and emancipation
The only question that arises is how emancipated the household used to be for Maarten and his wife… “I always like to tell you that, because I became emancipated through…
Maarten 80! Van Rossem talks about the rise of prosperity and luxury products
Amerongen – Born in 1943, Maarten grew up in lean times. Thinking back to that time, he calculates that life looked quite poor until at least the late 1950s: “wages…
Maarten 80 years old! Van Rossem talks about the housing shortage
To tackle the housing shortage, rapid and extensive construction had to be carried out from the end of the 1950s onwards. One of the major expansion neighborhoods in our region…