Recensie Zomerconcert Peace in Pieces in LD
Bekijk hier de recensie over ons zomerconcert “Peace in Pieces” in het Leidsch Dagblad.
Zingen in het donker
Citaten van Nescio De schrijver Nescio (ps. van J.H.F. Grönloh) en zijn vrouw wonen tijdens de bezetting in een bovenhuis in de Amsterdamse Watergraafsmeer. Vanaf oktober 1944 stagneert de aanvoer van voedsel en worden gas en licht afgesloten. Ze trekken zich terug in de keuken en zitten ’s avonds in het donker bij het fornuis […]
Victor Klemperer
Excerpts from the diary of Victor Klemperer Klemperer, a German-Jewish scholar, was spared deportation for most of the war, and then escaped, tearing off his yellow star, when Dresden was bombed in February 1945. The excerpt below, on the end of the war, is from a small town in Bavaria where he had fled (translation […]
Käthe Kollwitz
On the end of the First World War Kollwitz (who is famous among other things for powerful anti-war artworks, as well as memorial sculptures for soldiers of the First World War) experienced both World Wars from Berlin, lost her son Peter in WWI, and her grandson (also Peter) in WWII. On the end of the […]
Wartime women
Introduction These are diaries collected by the Mass Observation project, which started not long before the Second World War to collect experiences of ‘ordinary people’. It ended up documenting the experience of the war. These are diaries kept by women in the UK, and are specifically about VE day. They are collected and published in […]
Brieven van Engelse soldaten
Brieven van Engelse soldaten uit WWII, ingekwartierd in Nijmegen bij de ouders van Ammerensia van Dokkum, alt bij het LEC Brief Jack 14 december 1942 12 Cambridge Sq. London W.2 14.12.42 Dear Friends, Thanks a million for your letter, it’s very nice that one can look back to the time I spend in Western you […]
Dagboek Jan en Tjitske Eisenga
Dagboekfragmenten van de grootouders van Inez Eisenga, sopraan bij het LEC https://youtu.be/doaaJqh6h7o Over Jan en Tjitske Eisenga
Nijmegen 1944
Spreekbeurt mw. van Dokkum-Nijsse, moeder van Ammerensia van Dokkum, alt bij het LEC Tekst spreekbeurt origineel Tekst spreekbeurt transcriptie Wij woonden in Nijmegen toen de bevrijding van Nederland begon. Op 18 september 1943 waren er plotseling vreemde vliegtuigen in de lucht die heel lang overvlogen en waar dus door de Duitsers gauw op geschoten werden. […]
In the shadow of great times
Helen Goldbaum Tekst gedicht Published by a young American poet in September of 1939, and thus almost certainly written shortly before the Second World War began, this poem contemplates the way everyday routines become tentative in the face of the war to come. It seems almost to anticipate what in Britain would be called ‘the […]
And there was great calm
Thomas Hardy Tekst gedicht During the concert, we will read Hardy’s 1914 slightly humourous poem “Channel Firing” written at the start of the First World War as artillery practice disturbs Britain’s peace.. Hardy wrote ‘And there was great calm’ on the signing of the armistice that ended the war.. While occasionally offering some humour, it […]
