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Personal data Maria Catharina Menke 

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Household of Maria Catharina Menke

She is married to Geert Hendrik Scherpen.

They got married on November 18, 1944 at Schoonebeek, Gemeente Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland, she was 21 years old.Source 2

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Sources

  1. https://www.wiewaswie.nl/nl/detail/111611077
    21 in 1944
  2. https://www.wiewaswie.nl/nl/detail/111611077

Historical events

Day of marriage November 18, 1944

  • The temperature on November 18, 1944 was between 7.8 °C and 11.5 °C and averaged 9.2 °C. There was 10.8 mm of rain during 7.7 hours. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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 1944: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 9.1 million citizens.
    • February 20 » World War II: The United States takes Eniwetok Island.
    • April 1 » Navigation errors lead to an accidental American bombing of the Swiss city of Schaffhausen.
    • June 7 » World War II: The steamer Danae, carrying 350 Cretan Jews and 250 Cretan partisans, is sunk without survivors off the shore of Santorini.
    • June 10 » World War II: Six hundred forty-two men, women and children massacred at Oradour-sur-Glane, France.
    • June 15 » World War II: The United States invades Saipan, capital of Japan's South Seas Mandate.
    • July 25 » World War II: Operation Spring is one of the bloodiest days for the First Canadian Army during the war.

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