Contact Admin. For among the German nationals returning on the Dutch steamer 'Oldenbarnevelt', there were businessmen whose wives were largely in Germany , Roman Catholic nuns and priests, as well as the Lutheran missionaries - theologians, pastors, teachers, business managers, nurses and evangelists - the substance of any missionary society.
Lacking the necessary invitations to serve with their own mission churches had meant their ban from India, the compulsory repatriation and the further humiliation at Neuengamme. Christmas had been celebrated, as much space and resources would permit on the Oldenbarnevelt. The Dutch ship pulled into the Hamburg harbour to unload the latest cargo of men, women and children from the British colonies.
Being the end of December, "it was in the height of winter," 1 and one of Europe's coldest winters on record. For the British colonialists of India, who themselves were far too conscious and acquainted with the problems of climate - the tropics versus the European temperatures, the search for hill-stations in the hot season and also to have appropriate clothing and' topi-hats for the heat and the sun - then to send these families into the midst of a European winter, after their seven years of internment camps, was seen as a "real meanness on the part of the English.
No one could have foreseen that the winter of - would be so extremely cold, but it brought added suffering to these accustomed to the Indian climate. Otto Tiedt Leipzig narrated about their arrival:.
And of course we did not have any winter clothes. We weren't prepared at all for it. We only had our troop things. The Schleswig-Holstein Mission's director remarked, that these families had to leave practically most "everything in India. Login Signup. Signup Login Contact Admin. Inga 30 Bredstedt. Verifiziertes Profil. Madeleine 18 Schleswig-Holstein. Lada 24 Bredstedt. Hallo lieber Gast,. Dina 18 Bredstedt. Hallo ich bin die neue Ewa aus Polen!
