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Connie Baker

Meet Connie Baker and see the tablecloth she made from a sugar bag during WW2 in Holland.


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Henny, Arthur & Baz Bobeldyk

Meet Henny Bobeldyk and see her grandmother’s stoof from Holland.


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Ferdi Boers

Meet Ferdi Boers and see the clarinet he brought over from Holland.


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Jan De Kruiff

Meet Jan De Kruiff and see his from union book from Holland.


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Baukje den Exter

Meet Baukje den Exter and see the sewing box her brother gave her from Indonesia.


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Jacqueline Giuntini

Meet Jacqueline Giuntini and see the Dutch Poesie book given by her grandfather when she was 7 years old. It contains poems from girls she met on the ship to Australia in 1955.


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Maria Goulding

Meet Maria Goulding and she her Dutch coffee pot.


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Anne Hawker

Meet Anne Hawker and see her handwritten school diary from Holland.


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Bill & Henny Kloosterman

Meet Bill Kloosterman and see his carpentry tools from Holland.


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Dorrie Portegies

Meet Dorrie Portegies and see the ukulele her husband made in Indonesia in 1948.