Timeline: Aleida Gesiena Woordes

Achterhoek Ancestors

1920 - 1995 (74 years)

	Date	Event(s)
1	1922	1922: Salt is found when drilling for natural resources in Winterswijk.
2	1927	1927: Rev. Stegeman from Aalten holds a speech in Amsterdam, which is transmitted by radio. In Aalten, tickets are sold to hear the show for 15 cents.
3	1932	1932: A chalk quarry is established in the Vosseveld area near Winterswijk.
4	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.
5	1934	1934: The Bredevoort railroad station was decommissioned.
6	1936	1936: In a flare of anti-semitical violence, Jewish Winterswijker Mozes Kan is molested in his home.
7	1940	1940: Start of the German occupation.
8	1943	1943: Hundreds of Jewish inhabitants are deported to the concentration camps in eastern Europe where most of them are murdered.
9	1944	1944: Several members of the Winterswijk resistance are arrested and killed.
10	1945	1945: Tanks battle fiercely in the hamlet of Woold. The Achterhoek is liberated from the German occupation.
11	1949	1949: The German town of Süderwick is annexed to Dinxperlo and becomes Dutch territory.
12	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.
13	1963	1963: The town of Süderwick is given back to Germany after it had been annexed to the Netherlands in 1949.
14	1980	1980: The demise of the textile industry in the area leads to the closure of Winterswijk's last textile factory the Batavier.
15	1986	1986: Bredevoort is declared to be a 'protected cityscape' on account of the many remaining old buildings.
16	1989	1989: The first asylum seekers arrive in the new shelter Groot Deunk in Aalten.
17	1992	1992: Bredevoort Booktown starts. Several bookshops are opened in the old town.