- 1.1 Irmgard Gebensleben, 1922. Private collection 26
- 1.2 The Bresters in Utrecht, 1922. Private collection 27
- 1.3 Eberhard and his mother Elisabeth Gebensleben-von Alten in Brunswick, Christmas 1934. Private collection 31
- 1.4 Nameplate of Dr. Werner Liebenthal, notary and solicitor. The plate hung outside his office on Martin Lutherstrasse in Berlin. In 1933, following the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service, the plate was painted black by the Nazi’s, who boycotted Jewish-owned offices. Photo: Jens Ziehe. Donated by Hanna Liebenthal. Collection Jüdischen Museums Berlin 32
- 1.5 Elisabeth Gebensleben with her children and grandchildren in Brunswick, August 1937. Private collection 33
- 1.6 August Brester and Irmgard Gebensleben on their wedding day, Utrecht 1929. Private collection 36
- 1.7 Eberhard Gebensleben in uniform, visiting his sister Irmgard and her family in Amersfoort, June 1940. Private collection 44
- 1.8 Karel and Hedda Brester with their uncle Eberhard Gebensleben (not in uniform), Amersfoort June 1943. Private collection 46
- 1.9 Herta Euling and Eberhard Gebensleben in Berlin, 8 June 1943. Private collection 51
- 2.1 Rie Ton-Seyler in front of her bookcase, Heemstede, c. 1948. Private collection 58
- 2.2 Excerpt from the Amsterdam population register. Stadsarchief Amsterdam; Marie Seyler, 1934. Photo: Truus Knopper. Private collection 65
- 2.3 Marie Seyler and Roel Ton on their wedding day, Haarlem 21 July 1937. Private collection 66
- 2.4 Simon Vestdijk’s Else Böhler, Duitsch dienstmeisje. Third edition. Design Joan McNeill. The book was banned by the Nazi’s as anti-German during the occupation 69
- 2.5 ‘Take care when talking. The enemy is listening.’ White enamel shield from 1935. Photo: Auction house Franke, Nuremberg, for auction on 14 January 2016 72
- 2.6 The old opera house in Frankfurt was bombed and burned to the ground in March 1944. © 50 Jahre Flughafen Frankfurt 1936–1986. Geschichte eines europäischen Flughafens, hrsg. von der Flughafen Frankfurt Main AG, 1986, s. 47 78
- 2.7 Rie Ton-Seyler (in the right-hand corner) at a meeting organised by a local Anti-Apartheid Movement, published in Ede Stad, 18 April 1979. BDU Media/Ede Stad 84
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3.1 Lukas and his twin-brother Uli with their Japanese nanny. Kumamoto, Japan, 1913. Private collection 87 - 3.2 Lukas Plaut and Stien Witte, 1936. Private collection 90
- 3.3 The Spanish ambassador in the Netherlands says goodbye to Dutch nurses prior to their departure to the Spanish front. The Hague, April 1937. Stien’s colleague Noortje Diamant is on the left of the ambassador. Published in Het Volksdagblad and Het Vaderland, 23 April 1937 91
- 3.4 Lukas Plaut with his daugther Irmgard, Groningen 1942. Private collection 97
- 3.5 Käthe Kollwitz, Die Mütter (The Mothers), 1921–1922, Art Gallery of Ontario Promised Gift of Dr. Brian McCrindle 101
- 3.6 A ‘wild bertram’ in one of Lukas Plaut’s sketchbooks. Private collection 107
- 3.7 ‘Jewish refugees on a closed border.’ A train with refugees from Nazi Germany who fled after the so-called Kristallnacht was stopped at the Dutch border. Winterswijk, November 1938. Published in De Telegraaf, 19 November 1938 110
- 3.8 Lukas Plaut (fourth from the right) in the procession of professors walking across the Grote Markt in Groningen on the occasion of the opening of the Academic Year 1965. Private collection 114
- 3.9 Stien and Lukas Plaut-Witte, c. 1970. Private collection 116
- 3.10 ‘Forbidden to Jews’. Sign in the window of café Huis ‘de Beurs’, Groningen 1942. Photo J.H. Zijlstra, Collection Groninger Archieven 118
- 4.1 Lena Dusseljee (on the right) with her two sisters, c. 1948. Private collection 125
- 4.2 Cover of one of the many books on the South African War by the popular author Louwrens Penning, entitled The War in South Africa (1900). Caption: ‘Fear God and keep your powder dry’. Design: H. Leeuw 127
- 4.3 Letters from Lena Dusseljee to Pim Valk, tied with a string, and the loosely preserved letters from Piet Valk to Lena. Photo: Barbara Henkes 130
- 4.4 Election poster of the Anti-Revolutionaire Partij (ARP, 1948) saying ‘In the East Indies not the chaos of the Republic but the rule of law’. Designer unknown. Historisch Centrum Leeuwarden 135
- 4.5 Pim de Valk (second last row, third from the right) with his group of conscripts in Ede, called up in 1949. Photographer unknown, private collection 136
- 4.6 ‘Emigration is looking ahead’. 1950s poster from the General Emigration Center (Algemene Emigratie Centrale) 1950s. Collection: 150 years Dutch advertising, ReclameArsenaal: BG D30/780 (affiche) 140
- 4.7 Defiance Campaign, 1952 Johannesburg. Still from the documentary The State Against Mandela and the Others (2018) Photo: Jürgen Schadeberg. © www.jurgenschadeberg.com 147
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4.8 Drawing by Pim Valk in his letter to Lena of 13 July 1952. Private collection Barbara Henkes 148 - 4.9 Family portrait, taken before Pim Valk (third from the left) left for South Africa in September 1952. Private collection 149
- 4.10 The wedding of Pim Valk and Lena Dusseljee in 1954. From left to right: Lena’s mother; her father; Jan Flach, Pim Valk’s best man, whom he knew from the Netherlands; Pim and Lena; Lena’s sister and bridesmaid Rita, and both witnesses: Mr. Nagel and Mrs. Nagel. Mr. Nagel had lent Pim the money for the passage to South Africa in 1952, provided he would repay it to his son in South Africa. At the time of the wedding Nagel and his wife were visiting their son. Photographer unknown, private collection 152
- 4.11 Our republic now, to keep South Africa white. A poster promoting a White South African republic in the run-up to the referendum in October 1960 on the question whether the Union of South Africa should become a republic. The vote, which was restricted to Whites, was narrowly approved by 52.29% of the voters. The Republic of South Africa was founded on 31 May 1961. Designer unknown. UNISA Institutional Repository: political posters, KPC_112 155
- 4.12 Nel Valk in Johannesburg on her scooter, 1962. Private collection 156
- 4.13 ‘Three little niggers’. Caption with a photo of the only Black South Africans in the album of Nel Valk, Johannesburg 1962. Private collection 157
- 5.1 Wendela Beusekom-Scheffer and baby Bas in the cabin on board the Bloemfontein Castle. Photographer Jan Peter Beusekom, private collection 164
- 5.2 Map from a brochure of the Union Castle line showing a visual characterisation from a European perspective of the African continent (1950s). Designer unknown, private collection 168
- 5.3 The port of Lobito in September 1952. Private collection 169
- 5.4a ‘The voortrekkers, on their way to Pretoria 1952’, caption in a photo album of Wendela’s parents. Private collection 171
- 5.4b Cover reprint of L. Penning, Voortrekkersbloed (1965). Design: Hans Borrebach 172
- 5.5 Photographer: Ernest Cole, c. 1960. © Ernest Cole Family Trust 175
- 5.6 ‘Bas in front of the statue of Paul Kruger on the Church square, in the background the old building of the Netherlandse Bank van Zuid-Afrika’. Pretoria c. 1955. Caption in photo album. Private collection 183
- 5.7 Cover of H. Bloem, Een Hollandse familie in zonnig Zuid-Afrika (1949). Designer unknown 185
- 5.8 Lina, the domestic worker in the Beusekom household with the eldest son Bas, Pretoria, c. 1955. Private collection 199
- 5.9 Photographer: Tony McGrath 203
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6.1 Maarten Rens with his daughter and Sienna. Private collection Maarten Rens 207 - 6.2 Video still: the Huisman couple, Pretoria 1981 211
- 6.3 Video still: Sienna ironing in the scullery, Pretoria 1981 213
- 6.4 Video still: garden party, Pretoria 1981 214
- 6.5 Video stills: Luasi and Precious interviewed by Sylvia 218
- 6.6 Call for financial support of Radio Freedom, 1982. Poster design: Opland; IISH Collection, Amsterdam 226
- 6.7 Announcement of the manifestation Culture in Another South Africa, Amsterdam 1987. Design: Lies Ros, Rob Schröder, Frank Beekers. IISH Collection, Amsterdam 228
- 6.8 Video stills Barbara Masakela en Sylvia Huisman at CASA, Amsterdam 1981 229
- 6.9 Maarten Rens, filming the African Jazz Pioneers during the celebration of the end of the Netherlands Anti-Apartheid Movement. Amsterdam, October 1994. Photo: Pieter Broersma, IISH Collection 236