[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.0.48″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″ parallax=”off” parallax_method=”on”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.12.2″] THE HUMAN FACTOR For years the Over-Amstel Penitentiary with its tower blocks, at 48 Wenckebachweg in Amsterdam – or the ‘Bijlmerbajes’ (Bijlmer lockup) as it was popularly known – was the most famous and infamous prison in the Netherlands. The Bijlmerbajes, though it’s…
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[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text] Dikkie Scipio on the work of the fourth quarterly winner of 2015 Anne Beeksma The city centre of Rotterdam was bombed at the beginning of WWII and Rotterdam West was bombed in 1943. During the war several temporary housing areas, or ‘emergency villages’, were built in Rotterdam to soften the initial blows…
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