by Koos Postema says in the podcast, as A young boy during the war, about his childhood during the Second world War. “Or, well, war it is, or contains a virus, the children are always playing,” said the former radio and television presenter.
in The podcast was produced with the help of Dick Klees, who have been in business since 1969, the radio works, and editor-in-chief of the radio program With the Eye on the Morning.
In the five-part series, SELF, take, the 87-year-old Postema, who is the programs all Along the Line, and fellow students, as presented, the listener, to the period of time from the bombing of Rotterdam, and the liberation of the Netherlands.
(Postema laughs out loud, ed.).
“I have to tell you that I have little understanding of it. When I came home, told me that this podcast was going to make it, were mostly my children are very enthusiastic about it. Oh, I’m so excited, go on and you have a podcast to do with that?” I have been following it for a little bit, and it appears now that the podcast has been very popular among the young people. I can understand that. Who can decide for themselves if they want to have to go somewhere to listen to them. And it’s not because it’s the radio guide is there.”
“The podcast is A guy in a war and that guy is me. When I was seven years old, in may, 1940, I, along with a few of the hundreds of thousands of other People in the house being bombed. It was a horrible experience. Our house was on fire, and it was a great surprise. We had no idea that such a thing could happen. Most of the People did not even know that there were in the River fighting against the Germans.”
“The news was gloomy. Radioverslaggevers say that we are calm, quiet, and had to stay at home. Well, at 13.15 o’clock, our house was bombed. Immediately after, I ran away. And with that, the event that starts the podcast. After that, I’ll tell you how the story went with the boy and his two sisters, his brother and his mother.”
“My mother at a very young age, a widow, now. My father was a tram driver, and all of the war dead. They had only a small pension to pay for all those kids to feed. We are the first to go, wandering along with the sisters and other members of the family of my mother…. In the fall, we got a tip that there was in the Hague, a new district was built, where we found a home to rent. We have, during the war years. I share in the podcast how it was as a child. How to set up my school, and sometimes it was hit by stray bombs from an English plane.”
“And in 1944, the hongerwinter (Winter of starvation. It has to be a her close to me and my little sister would have died of starvation. We were sick in bed, and it was not in the future. A doctor brought us to a pivotal moment in the rice, and I got a temporary firm. My brother had been to the eastern parts of the country on bicycle, to eat, to catch up with a friend to the farmer. When he came back, he found us, lost so much weight, but by eating it in the nick of time to save.”
“You had as a child, and a lot of secrets from you.”
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“I think I see similarities between the children in the Second world War, are the children of today, who are playing will be. We have then seen how it is when you are suddenly called in, and that some things are not allowed to say it on the street, and that one is not allowed to know that the BBC was paying attention. You had as a kid, so a lot of secrets from you.”
“On the other hand, was just back playing football in the street, until almost all balls are in. We’ve even had the staff search for a lost tennis balls until we can’t anymore in the room. But then, the kids had fun, we did again and again with stones and sticks. It was funny for years.”
“Yes.” As a young man, I’m a very, very long time, anti-German, had been. You did not want to go on a vacation. That it was not. But, yes, times are changing. I’m talking about after the bombing in a book to be written. That is, in 1980, came out to my friend, Thomas, to Fast, and by the municipality of Rotterdam purchased. In the large theatres of the Goals, and the two thousand people invited to the bombing of the 1940’s and have gone through it.”
“There’s the occasion when even the former German chancellor, Willy Brandt. That was such a wonderful man and a wonderful speech, love. The Germans, who were born after the war have, of course, had nothing to do with the great crimes. There is no six million Jews were killed. Thus, the anti-German feeling was at a given point in time will be gone. That must be it.”
