Etiket: Descendants
Groningen will have two separate monuments for the VOC and WIC slavery history. ‘Does more justice to the descendants’
Groningen will have two separate monuments, for both the city’s Trans-Atlantic and Asian slavery history. Researchers have also found evidence for the involvement of the city government in the slave…
Change surname for descendants of enslaved people free | News item
News item | 22-12-2023 | 2:45 PM Descendants of enslaved people will be able to change their names free of charge next year. At the proposal of Minister Weerwind for…
Descendants of orphans, paupers and vagrants open mini exhibition in Veenhuizen: ‘We break through history’
The story of one vagrant is even more harrowing than that of the other. Their descendants have often put a lot of work into sifting through their lives. The Prison…
Veenhuizen in search of stories of descendants of the Colonies
Huybrecht and Johannes Koman were brothers and both chose the same life path, but had a completely different life course. In 1831 they were in the army to defend the…
Descendants of recognized Holocaust victims visit Camp Westerbork: ‘This moves me’
The descendants of the German couple Ludwig Dannheisser and Johanna Dannheisser-Bloch stand almost speechless on the grounds of the former camp Westerbork. They recently discovered that their relatives, victims of…
New podcast episode: Descendants
Mona Matthews, midwife and course coordinator at the University of Lübeck for the course in midwifery, is probably the closest thing to descendants. She teaches her students how children are…
LA returns $20 million beach resort to descendants of dispossessed black owners after 98 years
Charles and Willa Bruce bought two tracts of land in Manhattan Beach with a frontal ocean view in 1912. They turned it into a beach resort for black citizens. But…
Descendants of the last Italian king demand ‘their’ crown jewels back | Abroad
The crown jewels are estimated at a value of 300 million euros. Among the jewelry are brooches, earrings, tiaras and necklaces with 2000 pearls and more than 6700 brilliants. Lawyer…