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".

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image showing 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".

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.