Pages of my 1945 Diary
of my incarceration into a German Prison Camp
during WW2 1944-45.


It is now 28758 days ago that I started writing in this little old diary of mine.
Yes, that is now 78 years and 8 months and 26 days ago.


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  1. These are the first pages of my diary
  2. Dates might not be correct. Diary was used only to record events
  3. JANUARY 1945: 14 Sunday. We also have to work on Sundays.
  4. JANUARY 1945: 21 Sunday. Worked for half a day. Food reasonable
  5. JANUARY 1945: 28 Sunday. Have to work in kitchen tomorrow to peel potatoes (for hospital)
  6. FEBRUARY 1945: 4 Sunday. Have to go with the whole group to dig trenches.
  7. FEBRUARY 1945: 11 Sunday. Again the forest and trench digging. Attack by aeroplanes not as bad.
  8. FEBRUARY 1945: From 16 Friday. (Just notes what happened in approx. the next 6 weeks)
  9. FEBRUARY 1945: (continued from previous page)
  10. MARCH 1945: 25 Sunday. This is the first time since Saturday the 3rd of March that I made an entry in my diary again.
  11. APRIL 1945: Sunday the 1st. Now in quarantine with a few unknown to me people from Rotterdam.
  12. APRIL 1945: Sunday the 8th. I am not quite well. There is artillery fire at night
  13. APRIL 1945: 22nd Sunday. Get better. (That is what is written)
  14. APRIL-MAY 1945. They say it is terrible in Holland
  15. May 1945: 7th, the war is finished
  16. MAY-JUNE 1945. 29th of May 1945-We received a "bezugschein"
  17. JUNE 1945: 3rd. Today, Monday the 4th we are going by car to Holland.
  18. JUNE 1945: 13th. Maybe we are allowed to go home on Friday
  19. JUNE 1945: 17th, Sunday. Arrived home
  20. AANTEKENINGEN - NOTES

  21. Epilogue



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