J.G.J. ter Braak (1921-1995)
Son Frank ter Braak:
My mother M.S.I. ter Braak-Jentjens, 94 years old, has experienced World War II in Amsterdam and had heard about the tragedy at the Dam, but was not present. She met my father, an Amsterdam citizen, during the liberation festivities in Amsterdam.
My father, who died in 1995, was in the civil defense at the end of the war and shot at Germans who were in Peek and Cloppenburg during the drama. He once told us that. Historically it was of course the Groote club but we (three sons) did not know what the Groote club was (a society) and our father referred to it as near Peek and Cloppenburg (the building next door). There was heavy shooting at the time and my father (tall man for that time 190 cm) shot back with a carbine that sometimes misfired.
January 2017
