I remember the Red Cross lady......

"I remember the Red Cross lady came to our apartment"

When the end finally came the next day the Red Cross from England came with them, they brought a kind of stew because we were living almost in the center of The Hague. That is where they started out. I remember a Red Cross lady came in our apartment. She spoke English to grandpa, told him our apartment looked still clean en pretty, better than many she went into.

After she left grandpa told me she offerd us some stew, but grandpa told her we were OK. I said "Nick, why did you say that" he said "maybe our neighbor need it more than we do, because this morning we still both had one bit of bread", which was true.

Later we went outside, saw the first American Troops enter The Hague. What a wonderful sight that was, throwing chocolate bars, which we didn’t have for years. After that food came in from Sweden, bread. Then it came on the radio, "don’t eat too much you can die from it, your bodies have to adjust to it.