Bygone News - Syta Coleman http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk/taxonomy/term/450/0 en Occupied Groningen http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk/reminiscences/occupied-groningen <p>It was September 1944, I was a student nurse in Apeldoorn and I had been at home on sick leave as I had TB. The cure was bedrest and good food. We lived in occupied Holland, Groningen, not far from the German border. My father worked there on the railway and he was told by the Underground that we had to leave our house and go underground. We put what belongings we could in an empty room belonging to a neighbour. The rest we just had to leave in our house. Father and Nico, my brother, dressed as workmen and cycled to Makkum, the village where my parents were born, and where we had a lot of relations. Nobody wanted me as I was ill and did not have a ration card.<span class="read-more"><a href="/reminiscences/occupied-groningen"><strong>&nbsp;Read more......</strong></a></span></p> 1939-1945 Childhood Evacuation Railways / Trains Rationing War Years Syta Coleman Mon, 21 Mar 2011 15:56:35 +0000 lynne.davidson 741 at http://bygone.dundeecity.gov.uk