Overview Anecdotes
When politicians get involved in science
When politicians get involved in science It is 2022, the bicentenary of the birth of the Augustinian friar Gregor Mendel, the founder of genetics, and this is being celebrated in all kinds of ways. In 1955, as a biology student, I […]
Read More→My drawings of shady ladies at the bar
My drawings of shady ladies at the bar Amsterdam, July 2022 Anne-Ruth Wertheim In 1951 my secondary school in Amsterdam was celebrating its twentieth anniversary. The preparations were in full swing, and our science class was asked to run the bar. In those days […]
Read More→The Indonesian who had stolen opium
When I was in our first Japanese internment camp for about a year, I experienced something that made an immense impression on me. I was nine years old at the time and it has stayed with me all my life. When I was over […]
Read More→Christmas stall
Our grandchildren (fifty fifty girls and boys) made this Christmas stall. Each year they added a few more molded figures. Those are of unbaked clay and therefore very fragile, but we preserve them carefully. The children took it for granted to sculpt queens and […]
Read More→My sister, Marijke The-Wertheim wrote about her violin lessons from Szymon Goldberg in the Japanese Internment Camp Kramat.
My sister, Marijke The-Wertheim wrote about her violin lessons from Szymon Goldberg in the Japanese Internment Camp Kramat. At the exhibition ‘Selamat Sjabbat’ at the Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam about Jews in the former Dutch East Indies, a significant proportion of the objects […]
Read More→I made Clowny and Sluggish Henkie not in the general camp Kramat but in the Jewish Camp Tangerang
I made Clowny and Sluggish Henkie not in the general camp Kramat but in the Jewish Camp Tangerang The Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam, was from 13 October 2014 to 8 March 2015 holding an exhibition entitled ‘Selamat Sjabbat’ about Jews in the former […]
Read More→