Achterhoek Ancestors

Elizabet Mathilda Kastein

Female 1928 - 1999  (71 years)


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   Date  Event(s)
1932 
  • 1932: A chalk quarry is established in the Vosseveld area near Winterswijk.
1933 
  • 1933: Winterswijk gets their own department of the Nationalist Socialist party, the NSB. This party later becomes the major ally of the nazi party.
1934 
  • 1934: The Bredevoort railroad station was decommissioned.
1936 
  • 1936: In a flare of anti-semitical violence, Jewish Winterswijker Mozes Kan is molested in his home.
1940 
  • 1940: Start of the German occupation.
1943 
  • 1943: Hundreds of Jewish inhabitants are deported to the concentration camps in eastern Europe where most of them are murdered.
1944 
  • 1944: Several members of the Winterswijk resistance are arrested and killed.
1945 
  • 1945: Tanks battle fiercely in the hamlet of Woold. The Achterhoek is liberated from the German occupation.
1949 
  • 1949: The German town of Süderwick is annexed to Dinxperlo and becomes Dutch territory.
10 1959 
  • 1959: A group of people from the Moluccas (part of the former Dutch colony of the Dutch East Indies) are housed in camp Vossenveld in Winterswijk.
11 1963 
  • 1963: The town of Süderwick is given back to Germany after it had been annexed to the Netherlands in 1949.
12 1980 
  • 1980: The demise of the textile industry in the area leads to the closure of Winterswijk's last textile factory the Batavier.
13 1986 
  • 1986: Bredevoort is declared to be a 'protected cityscape' on account of the many remaining old buildings.
14 1989 
  • 1989: The first asylum seekers arrive in the new shelter Groot Deunk in Aalten.
15 1992 
  • 1992: Bredevoort Booktown starts. Several bookshops are opened in the old town.