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=== Elisabeth Jacoba van Van Lohuizen-van Wielink: May 10, 1940 === | === Elisabeth Jacoba van Van Lohuizen-van Wielink: May 10, 1940 === | ||
[[Elisabeth_Jacoba_van_Lohuizen-van_Wielink.jpg|thumb|Elisabeth Jacoba van Van Lohuizen-van Wielink.]] | |||
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Last night the roar of aircraft kept waking us up. First at around two o’clock, later at around four. The second time, I got up to take a look, but couldn’t see anything. I thought they might be German or English planes, heading for their enemies. I tried to sleep again. Though the noise never stopped, I was suddenly woken up by shouting. | Last night the roar of aircraft kept waking us up. First at around two o’clock, later at around four. The second time, I got up to take a look, but couldn’t see anything. I thought they might be German or English planes, heading for their enemies. I tried to sleep again. Though the noise never stopped, I was suddenly woken up by shouting. | ||
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Elisabeth Jacoba van Van Lohuizen-van Wielink: May 10, 1940
thumb|Elisabeth Jacoba van Van Lohuizen-van Wielink.
Last night the roar of aircraft kept waking us up. First at around two o’clock, later at around four. The second time, I got up to take a look, but couldn’t see anything. I thought they might be German or English planes, heading for their enemies. I tried to sleep again. Though the noise never stopped, I was suddenly woken up by shouting.
Elisabeth Jacoba van Van Lohuizen-van Wielink was a Dutch citizen who began keeping a diary immediately after the German invasion during the Second World War. She and ultimately wrote 941 pages. Her husband was a pharmacist and optician who owned a grocery store in Epe, near Apeldoorn.
- Dutch War Diaries @ NY Times
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