Database Schaap » Dirkje Merkenstijn (1864-1942)

Personal data Dirkje Merkenstijn 


Household of Dirkje Merkenstijn

She is married to Bernardus Elberse.

They got married on April 26, 1906 at Oudewater, Utrecht, Nederland, she was 42 years old.

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Historical events

Day of death March 2, 1942

  • The temperature on March 2, 1942 was between -1.1 °C and 6.0 °C and averaged 1.9 °C. There was 8.0 hours of sunshine (73%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1942: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 9.0 million citizens.
    • January 2 » World War II: Manila is captured by Japanese forces, enabling them to control the Philippines.
    • March 17 » Holocaust: The first Jews from the Lvov Ghetto are gassed at the Belzec death camp in what is today eastern Poland.
    • April 3 » World War II: Japanese forces begin an assault on the United States and Filipino troops on the Bataan Peninsula.
    • May 10 » World War II: The Thai Phayap Army invades the Shan States during the Burma Campaign.
    • July 1 » The Australian Federal Government becomes the sole collector of income tax in Australia as State Income Tax is abolished.
    • September 21 » The Holocaust in Ukraine: On the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, Nazis send over 1,000 Jews of Pidhaitsi to Bełżec extermination camp.


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