For fourteen years, Carolien van Lierop worked on the diaries that are full of dramatic, but also endearing moments from the Second World War. From crashed bombers, a shooting after a dance evening to cozy card evenings and rustling sugar for a wedding. Those stories are now bundled in a new book that was presented, in Museum Oud Anna Paulowna.
“While sorting out I got more and more respect for Annie,” says Carolien. “She was a young woman then and described everything from then, also about how she felt. The war, the Germans, often made her angry. But she was also anxious. Her distinct opinion and the love for her family provide impressive stories.”
Aunt Annie
Annie van den Berg was born in 1912 and decided in 1941 to write down everything she saw happening around them. She was very socially involved, well -read and atrouted by the freedom that the Dutch were taken away. Her father had come to the polder as a pioneer and became very successful as a Bollenboer. In her parental home, Huize Freesia, a famous building in Anna Paulowna, Annie writes diaries full of stories about daily life.
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