HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 1985-12-23, Page 2James Main, Brussels, a Federal nominee to the Huron County Housing Authority received a plaque
honouring the completion of seven years service as a member of the Authority. Gerry Ginn of Goderich
Township, newly appointed chairman of the Authority, presented the award following the regular
meeting last Tuesday, November 26 in Goderich.
Good turn of 40 years ago
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PAGE 2. THE CITIZEN, MONDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1985.
It's the kind of story that takes on
special meaning at Christmas.
On December 18 Gerald Exel
received a registered letter from
the Rabo-bank of the Netherlands.
In the letter there was a bank-note.
for $433. It's the conclusion to a
story that started 40 years ago.
In the last two months of World
War Two scores of old people and
babies died of malnutrition in the
western part of Holland. The
young and middle-aged men could
not show themselves in public for
fear of being picked up by the
Germans and sent to Germany to
work in war factories. The women
and teenagers came by droves
across the Ysel River to the eastern
part of the Netherlands where the
Exel family lived, in search of food.
Even in the small country of
Holland this was along trip to make
in one day, so the Exels gave
shelter to people overnight. Dur-
ing the last six weeks of the war
they had from two to six strangers
as unpaid guests in their house
every night. The travellers usually
arrived around suppertime.
One evening in the latter part of
March, 1945 a widow in her
mid-forties and her 19-year-old
daughter arrived. That night they
ate with the Exel family and slept in
a double bed and got what food the
family could spare for breakfast the
next morning. They went to local
farmers and bought small amounts
of rye grain and potatoes until they
had 100 pounds of each. They
returned to stay with the Exels over
night and the next morning the
family helped them fasten their
food onto the bicycle carrier. The
Exels gave them five pounds of
brown beans and five pounds of
bacon and off they went to the
bridge over the Ysel River.
Late that afternoon the two
women were back, both crying.
The German soldiers had taken
away everything from them and
sent them back. They were not
allowed to cross the bridge.
Two days later they tried again,
this time with their food more
camouflaged. This time they made
it across the bridge with their food
supply intact.
The 19-year-old girl is now 60
years old and is now Mrs. Elizabeth
van Noord and it was she who sent
the letter and the money in token of
her appreciation for that act of
kindness more than 40 years ago.