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** translation of describtion ** Repatriates. A mother with two children is doing her groceries at the Toko in Amsterdam Slotermeer. There's a bowl of kroepoek on the counter, in the back there are lots of jars and containers. The shopowner is writing in a book [she is buying on credit]. Holland, Amsterdam, 1956

you could buy most groceries unpacked. Beans, grains, sago, sugar, even salt were weighed and packed on the spot in paper bags. That's were the the open wooden containers along the backwall were for, and the scalers on the counter..

** translation of describtion ** Repatriates. Displced persons are standing in front of their temporary homes in the hallway of a convent in Vaals. From back to front: two boys, man with dog, woman with a broom, woman with two children. Holland, Vaals, april 25th 1951

** translation of describtion ** Repatriates. Three elderly colonial women are at the countertop [ doing the dishes]. Behind them three women in uniforms. Note on the backside of the picture: "Comfortable and taken care of". [Life in a servicehome]. Holland, Laag Soeren, 1957