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House where Mom and Dad Vis rented rooms when first married. Ralph and Sylvia (Roelef & Sipkje) were born while they lived here. (2nd story, 2 windows on the right were our rooms.)
House we lived in before emigrating to Canada when Sipkje was 6. Address: Borneolaan 3, Zeist. That's Mom in front of it. We lived in the unit on the left.
The Waterman was the ship on which the family emigrated to Canada.
Grist mill of Sipkje's great-grandfather, Marten Zwart at Suameer, Friesland, the Netherlands.
Farmhouse where Grace Vis lived as a girl. Grave of her parents.
Grace Vis' family (minus her brother Henry and his wife, Alice) in 1988
Siep & Meine
Seitze & Roefke, Grace, Anneke, Jantje & Roel
Yntze & Marijke
(Mom's and Anneke's husbands had both died)
Martin's family in 1988 (minus Dad [Martin Vis] and his father, Roel Vis, or Opa)
Els, Oma (Froukje Vis-Zwart), Grace, Pim & Tini, Seitze, Geert & Rienk
Martin at work
Grebbeberg, scene of the worst fighting in the Netherlands during World War II. Martin fought here. Also graveyard and memorial.
