Month: August 2020

By Corry van Straten When the Second World War broke out in the Netherlands in 1940, there were two psychiatric hospitals in Loosduinen: Rosenburg and Bloemendaal. What happened to these institutions during the war is described in my book “Een wereld die er niet meer is (2015)”. Both institutions merged into Parnassia Groep after 1998. …

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If you cycle through the Scheveningse Bosjes on a nice afternoon, you probably travel along the Galgenpad (‘Gallow path’). But fortunately the time has passed when you could have had a rope around your neck in that area. Dune area and the Bataaf Like many parts of The Hague, the Scheveningse Bosjes (‘Scheveningen Woods’) were …

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