Fietstour Vergeten bombardement

In addition to the major bombing of Rotterdam, which started the war in May 1940, there is the 'Forgotten Bombardment' of March 31, 1943. In this mistaken bombing by the Allies, 453 people died and 16,500 people were left homeless. Among them the grandmother of historian Lisa Koolhoven.

Lisa takes you on a bike tour along the route that her grandmother Beb van der Schalk - van de Belt also took on March 31, 1943: from the school where she was teaching as a 22-year-old when the bombs fell, to her parental home in Bospolder-Tussendijken, past historic Delfshaven to the refugee address that she had agreed upon with her parents and sister.

There she spent a night of fear. When the immediate danger to her life seemed to have passed the next morning, the desperation was great: where would they go? How would they get food and supplies?