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Project Ongekend Bijzonder, Amsterdam, interview 36
No full textgeslacht: Vrouw
land van herkomst: Joegoslavië
leeftijd aankomst Nederland: 9
stad: Amsterdam
vluchtreden: Oorlog
relaties met eigen gemeenschap: Noemt dat hij het altijd belangrijk vond om Bosnische vrienden te hebben. Hij ontmoette die op Bosnische feesten waar hij met nichten en neven naartoe ging.
opleiding: Management, economie en recht
beroep land van herkomst: Niet van toepassing
beroep in Nederland: Accountan
Friends in a Cold Climate: Nijmegen
No full textThis dataset contains interviews with Ben Schennink. Ben has been working for the Studiecentrum voor Vredesvraagstukken of the Catholic University (KU) Nijmegen, presently named CICAM. Ben Schennink also played a scientific supporting role within the Catholic peacemovement Pax Christi and the IKV, the Interkerkelijk Vredesberaad. This interview deviates from the other interviews and datasets within the project since it does not directly elaborates on the group of towns that formed the town-twinning circle that originated from Esslingen am Neckar in the fifties and sixties, which is the subject of the project. The interviews with Ben go well beyond the subject of West-European town-twinning after the post-war years and deal with subjects as Third World development, the nuclear armaments race and resistance against it, the fall of the Iron Curtainand the breaking up of former Yugoslavia. As such, his testimony refers to the third wave of town-twinning, were Friends in a Cold Climate is mainly concerned with the second wave. However, the interviews with Ben Schennink also shine a light on the role of the churches in the processes of reconcilliation and rapprochement that took place after WWII. The significance of this is explained by prof. Mathieu Seegers in his book: “The Origins of European Integration: The Pre-History of Today’s European Union 1937-1951” in which he acknowledges that “Many of the ideas for European integrations had been sustained by ecclesiastical networks”, “Such networks played a key role in the process of selecting and combining idea’s for the future of post-war Europe”.
Ben was born right in the middle of the Second World War, in Zevenaar, living on a farm with his parents and grandparents. Around the Battle of Arnhem in 1944, when he had just started walking, his family's farm, located about 5-600 meters from the main road to Arnhem and the railway from Germany to Arnhem, became a shelter. The farm had two large cellars filled with evacuated neighbors, as well as German soldiers setting up defenses and workers from Achterhoek digging trenches. The war stories and stress, along with the positive experiences of his parents and grandparents, shaped his past and sparked his interest in war and conflict from an early age. His father's keen interest in international politics further influenced him, leading him to follow global events closely during his teenage and high school years, maintaining a strong interest in international politics and related matters.
Ben was very interested in Israel. Initially from the idea: ‘What is life on a kibbutz? What does that mean?’ So, it was about communal living and survival. This inspired him to pursue the topic of "war" and how to deal with it. The Study Center for Peace Issues had just been established, and he was approached. He came into contact with Pax Christi and later became active at the Study Center for Peace Issues, since he was studying sociology and research methods. In 1967, the Peace Week had just started, and the Study Center was asked to research the early Peace Weeks. He was asked, as a student assistant, to begin this work. He continued in the research trajectory of peace research and mobilization activities, including Peace Weeks and local action groups. He also connected with the Polemological Institute in Groningen. They collaborated on numerous projects between Nijmegen and Groningen for many years. Ben attended the first general assembly of Pax Christi, which took place in Roosendaal in the fall of 1968, shortly after the Russian invasion of Prague. The Prague crisis in 1968 was used by government officials to advocate for increased defense spending. Pax Christi opposed this, stating that the crisis should be used to promote dialogue. Ben became active in Pax Christi's International Affairs Committee, dealing with issues like the situation in Israel, détente, and armament. Another significant factor at the time, though less relevant to him personally, was the IKV, which had been founded in 1966. The issue of conscientious objection was prominent, and Pax Christi and the IKV were advocating for better support for conscientious objectors and a new Conscientious Objection Act. This was part of the broader discussions, involving the government, between Pax Christi and peace operations. When the discussion about nuclear weapons in the Netherlands emerged in the late 1950s, the question of whether to place nuclear weapons in the country led to significant debates within the Reformed Church. The theme of "war and peace" became a crucial topic in the lead-up to the Second Vatican Council, and Pope John XXIII's 1962-63 encyclical "Pacem in Terris" emphasized that not only Catholics but all people of good will should work together for peace
Project Ongekend Bijzonder, Rotterdam, interview 09
No full textgeslacht: M
land van herkomst: Iran
leeftijd aankomst NL: 25
stad: Rotterdam
vluchtreden: regime
relaties met eigen gemeenschap:
opleiding: Hogeschool en Universiteit Accountancy in NL modern bedrijf administratie MBA
beroep land van herkomst: accountancy
werk in NL: Accountancy
kinderen: 2
opvallend/bijzonder: De betekenis van het geloof is te vinden in God zelf en in de profeten. Kerk, synogoge, moskee om tot innerlijke rust te komen
Project Ongekend Bijzonder, Amsterdam, interview 53
No full textgeslacht: Man
land van herkomst: Zuid-Soedan
leeftijd aankomst Nederland: 19
vluchtreden: Weggelopen van militair trainingskamp
opleiding: Middelbare school
beroep in Nederland: projectleider schoonmaakbedrijf, muzikant
bijdrage aan de stad: Speelt in Afrikaanse bands in Amsterdam, schrijft gedichten
bijzonderheden: Komt via Vluchtelingen Ambassadeurs op scholen om vluchtelingenverhalen te vertellen en doet projecten in eigen buurt en stad in het kader van MaatschapWi
Project Ongekend Bijzonder, Rotterdam, interview 23
No full textgeslacht: M
land van herkomst: Chili
leeftijd aankomst NL: 20
stad: Rotterdam
vluchtreden: dictatuur
relaties met eigen gemeenschap: actief in latijns-amerikaanse gemeenschap
werk in NL: schilder, dichter
kinderen: 2
bijdrage aan de stad: Maakte muurschilderingen in Rotterdam, actief in kunstwereld, met name ook met kansarme kindere
Friends in a Cold Climate: Esslingen-1
No full textRICHARD KRAMARTSCHIK. The family Kramartschik lived in Slovakia. Richard’s mother was Hungarian and his father, a policeman, was registered as a German during the war. After the war the father was treated badly. The family, Richard, a three-year-old, with his older brother, a younger sister and the parents, were finally deported from Czechoslovakia 1947. They arrived in Esslingen, in a barracks camp where they had to live in a room with strangers. The local population did not greet the “Heimatvertriebene” very warmly, but with open hostility. The displaced persons were a foreign body in Swabia an were called “Rucksack Germans” and other swear words.
"The German Expellees or Heimatvertriebene are 12-16 million German citizens (regardless of ethnicity) and ethnic Germans (regardless of citizenship) who fled or were expelled after World War II from parts of Germany annexed by Poland and the Soviet Union and from other countries (the so-called einheitliches Vertreibungsgebiet, i.e. uniform territory of expulsion, who found refuge in both West and East Germany, and Austria." (Wikipedia)
Richard persisted, went to high school in Esslingen and made it to class representative, and later, to student representative of the whole school. As this student representative, he took part in the district youth group of Otto Weinmann. in 1965, Otto Weinmann, the charismatic leader and initiator of town-twinnings and youth exchanges, invited Richard to take part in the International Youth Exchange programme as a group leader. Richard travelled by train with a group to Schiedam in Holland and was very surprised when a man with a microphone ran up to him and asked what he felt as a German in a country that Germany had invaded. Richard had wanted the young people who traveled with him to understand that they were ambassadors of Germany. The question at the train station took Richard totally by surprise because he didn't feel like a guilty German. He was just over 20 years old at the time and knew as good as nothing about the war. Richard didn’t feel burdened by his parents in any way and didn't perceive the reporter's question as that he was personally to blame, but rather as an accusation of the guilt of Germany as a nation. When Richard became a teacher, he tried to always report on the war, so that his students would at least know what had happened in the world in the German name. He later ran for the local council in Essingen and became the headmaster of a Realschule. The displaced people were proud that a ‘Heimatvertriebene” had become a city councilor in Essingen and the Swabians were satisfied with a successful headmaster who stood up for young people, for students
Project Ongekend Bijzonder, Amsterdam, interview 48
No full textgeslacht: Man
land van herkomst: Eritrea
leeftijd aankomst Nederland: 26
stad: Amsterdam
vluchtreden: Politiek vluchteling ivm onafhankelijk worden van Eritrea, gevaar en onrust door (rekrutering) verzetsstrijders. Eerst naar Ethiopië, toen Sudan, toen Duitsland, Italië en uiteindelijk naar Nederland omdat hij in Italië geen verblijfsvergunning kon krijgen ivm verouderd paspoort (oude waren ongeldig verklaard, Eritrea was nog niet onafhankelijk).
relaties met eigen gemeenschap: In de jaren ’80 vooral Eritrese vrienden
opleiding: Accounting (in Eritrea Italiaanse diploma behaald, die is hier vertaald om te mogen werken)
beroep land van herkomst: student
beroep in Nederland: diverse accounting functies bekleed bij een bank
kinderen: 2
bijdrage aan de stad: “Ik heb in mijn eentje heeft niks bijgedragen. Ja ik heb belasting betaald, dat is ook belangrijk.”
opvallend/bijzonder: In verband met kolonisatie van Eritrea en schooltijd op Italiaanse scholen kan hij zich makkelijker en beter uitdrukken in het Italiaans dan in zijn moedertaal. Hij heeft spijt dat hij niet in het verzet is gegaan tegen de Ethiopische overheersing van Eritrea
Project Ongekend Bijzonder, Utrecht, interview 13
No full textgeslacht: M
land van herkomst: Afghanistan
leeftijd aankomst NL: 21
stad: Utrecht
relaties met eigen gemeenschap: actief binnen Afghaanse vereniging
opleiding: HTS
beroep land van herkomst: student
werk in NL: Ingenieursbureau; Rijkswaterstaat
kinderen: 1
bijdrage aan de stad: vrijwilliger buurthui
Project Ongekend Bijzonder, Utrecht, interview 23
No full textgeslacht: V
land van herkomst: Ethiopië
leeftijd aankomst NL: 15
stad: Utrecht
vluchtreden: politiek
relaties met eigen gemeenschap: naast Ethiopische vrienden ook veel Nederlandse vrienden
opleiding:ROC
beroep land van herkomst: n.v.t.
werk in NL: verpleegkundige
kinderen:
The Effect of Fostering a Growth Mindset in Primary School Children: Does Intervention Approach Matter?
No full textThis dataset is from a study that aimed to assess the effects of two interventions both independently (main effects) and in combination (interaction effect): a growth mindset reading and writing assignment (factor 1) and effort-based praise (factor 2) on mindset beliefs and learning performance, specifically in terms of retention and transfer within the probability calculation domain