Tietje Ives-Scheenstra obituary
(The Guardian Netherlands)

My mum, Tietje Ives-Scheenstra, who has died aged 99, lived an eventful life. Born into a tiny farming community near Wolvega in the Netherlands, as the youngest daughter of Grietje and Meint Scheenstra, Tietje chose a career outside the farm. At 18 she began nursing training in the city of Leeuwarden, and she continued to nurse in the northern provinces throughout the second world war.From 1940 the Netherlands was under Nazi occupation. Tietje recalled seeing Dutch Jews assembling in the town square in Leeuwarden before being transported to the transit camp at Westerbork. She remembered delivering babies by kerosene light on canal barges. Continue reading...