In the previous blog we saw Tera and Pico keeping themselves occupied with a starling pot. We now continue with Pico’s life in Domburg during the early years of the war. Pico lives with his two parents in villa “de Wael” in Domburg. Pico is 48 at the outbreak of the second world war, his […]

The previous blog was about the beginning of the war. Although “normal” life continues, the war soon becomes noticeable. Houses must be darkened and many evening gatherings are more difficult, because there is a curfew. That means that life for a single woman like Tera quickly becomes boring. To get through the evenings and to

In the previous blog we saw Marius comming to the Netherlands one last time, and what happens with him after that until his untimely death in 1945. We now continue with the war in the Netherlands. On May 10, 1940, the Germans invade the Netherlands. At first, Tera notices little of the war. She just

In the previous blog we saw Tera making name for herself as a malacologist and has a settled position in Amsterdam. This does not apply to her brother Marius. Marius is 11 years Tera’s senior. As children they got along well and Tera looked up to her big brother. In the photo: mother together with

In the previous blog we said goodbye to Tera’s most important teacher Max Weber. Although Tera misses him terribly, Professor Weber is less needed as a teacher. After Tera’s  return from the Dutch Easr Indies in 1932, she went back to work in Amsterdam. In 1933 she moved to the Parnassusweg in Amsterdam. The photo

In the previous blog we were introduced to Pico van der Feen. In this blog we say goodbye to Max Weber Max Weber is one of the most important Dutch biologists of the early 20th century. As the Royal Academy of Sciences puts it: The last decades of the 19th century were the heyday of

In the previous blog we saw Tera moving to the Parnassusweg in Amsterdam. 1933 is an important year for Tera. Her father dies, she moves house and she gets engaged to Pico van der Feen. Pieter Jacobus (Pico) van der Feen was born at the Stratumsedijk in Stratum (now part of Eindhoven) in 1892, where

In the previous blog we saw Tera leaving the Dutch East Indies and returning to the Netherlands on April 6, 1932. Even before Tera returns from the Indies, her father and she herself speculate where she will live. She could possibly move in with Nel Schoo, an unmarried cousin: I received a long epistle from

The last weeks in the Indies are dominated by Tera’s departure, she has already send back a few book chests with the van der Sleen family. She packs up and the bike is taken apart again and boarded. She has booked a cabin on again, coincidentally, the Christiaan Huijgens. Due to the crisis, the boats

In the previous blog we read about Tera’s friendship with Maus. Old friends of Tera’s also come to visit when Wicher van der Sleen and wife, with whom she traveled through the Riviera in 1920, drop by. Apparently they are with a tour group, of which Tera doesn’t think very highly: I had the family