toonbank

Repatrianten

from Nationaal Archief

• Leenke said:

  ** 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

• annet said:

  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..