The Daily Populous Tuesday October 29th, 2019 evening edition
A 9-year-old boy from Amsterdam during the Dutch famine better known as "winter hunger" from 1944 to 45. Many children carried spoons with them wherever they went "just in case".
A previous client of mine lived through this, her father worked at a factory and fed the kids from his neighborhood because that was all the kids could get. She talked a lot about those meals.
It's a haunting picture that I have known for many years. My grandpa also said he always had a spoon on him, just in case. And how he walked dozens of kilometers just to get something to eat from farmers.
fretnbel on October 29th, 2019 at 09:38 UTC »
Terrible terrible. Remember seeing that picture as a kid and got sick from it.
What was the main cause?
As far as I knew it only affected northern NL.
Was it because it was still under German occupation?
DutchMedium013 on October 29th, 2019 at 09:55 UTC »
A previous client of mine lived through this, her father worked at a factory and fed the kids from his neighborhood because that was all the kids could get. She talked a lot about those meals.
Storystein on October 29th, 2019 at 11:13 UTC »
It's a haunting picture that I have known for many years. My grandpa also said he always had a spoon on him, just in case. And how he walked dozens of kilometers just to get something to eat from farmers.