Welcome.
This is a website dedicated to the
memoirs of my late grandmother, Alida Bijl-Lursen. I am Jenny
Radcliffe, and it is my privilege to have been granted by my
grandfather, Alida's widower, permission to publish these memoirs on
the web.
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It is with great regret that I announce the death
on the 13th July 2004 of my grandfather, Prof. Dirk Bijl,
peacefully, in St Luke's Hospital Bradford, following a short
illness. His funeral will take place on the 21st July 2004,
consisting of a service at 1pm at the Heaton St Andrew's United Reform
Church in Bradford and followed by a family only burial at the
Woodland Site at Thornton Cemetary at 2:45.
Family flowers only; donations in lieu to Amnesty
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This page should serve as an index
to this site, since for ease of reading I have split the memoirs into
several sections. Should you be rambling around and find yourself
confused as to where you have been, are, or want to go, the logo at
the top should act as a link back to this index page.
- An Introduction from me about the whys and
wherefores of my looking after this site, and how it came into
being
- An Introduction from Alida, in which she
describes how the Occupation occcured and something of her life at the
time
- An Explanation from Alida, in which she
explains why she wrote these memoirs
- A list of the indignities of Occupation and
Oppression
- Some stories of how the Occupation affected
Alida's family
- Things which they did to keep up morale
- The last year of the occupation, and the
worst one
- Alida's adventurous hunger trip
- The last few months before freedom
Throughout these pages, text like this is my writing and text like this is Alida's.
Please Mail Me
if you have any questions at all about the site, or if I can help you
in any way.
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