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The Family

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This chapter describes the Van der Waerden family, the parents and brothers of Bartel L. van der Waerden.

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Notes

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    [WaD6].

  2. 2.

    [WaT3].

  3. 3.

    You can see his portrait with a pipe hanging on the wall in the family photos from 1916 to 1925 reproduced in this chapter.

  4. 4.

    Het Volk, June 12, 1940.

  5. 5.

    Parket Officier van Justitie Amsterdam, 1940–1949, inventory number 3 [=Algemeen Register, or Correspondentie-register, 1942]; Case number: 1981

    Number of letter: 1095/42

    Date of the letter: 17 Nov., 1942 [it says ‘id.’, which means the same date as another letter about another case directly above #1981] received by Officier van Justitie: 18 Nov., 1942

    From: Burg[emeester van] Laren NH. [=Noord-Holland] sending in: official report about the death of Dorothea Adriana Endt by means of suicide answer sent by Officier van Justitie: 18 Nov., 1942 to: Burg. Laren NH.

    Content answer: verlof tot begraven (consent to bury the deceased).

  6. 6.

    [WaD7], e-mail in English.

  7. 7.

    PvdA, literally Labor Party, was founded in 1946 as a continuation of SDAP, the party of Coen’s father Theo, which was joined by the Liberal-Democratic Association (Vrijzinnig-Democratische Bond, or VDB) and the Christian-Democratic Union (Christelijk-Democratische Unie, or CDU).

  8. 8.

    The first time he left the Senate due to his wife’s poor health; the second time due to his own health problems.

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  6. Waerden, Theo van der, letter to A. Soifer, June 25, 2004.

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  7. Waerden, Theo van der, letter to A. Soifer, November, 2005.

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  8. Waerden, Theo van der, letter to A. Soifer, November, 2005.

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    Alexander Soifer

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Soifer, A. (2015). The Family. In: The Scholar and the State: In Search of Van der Waerden. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-0712-8_3

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