Remembrance Window Hunger-winter

Text on the memorial window, in the former town hall:
FOR REMINDER
THE HUNGER WINTER
1944 – 1945

All glass decorations are by H.J. Liefkes in The Hague, many of them remind of the Second World War. The scene on the landing in the stairwell depicts a woman being trampled by the German eagle, with the date 1940/1945. In the scene of the window on the first floor, a Dutch soldier with the tricolor in his hand is surrounded by doves of peace, orange apples and tulips. In the council chamber, two doors have stained glass decorations. One scene is a reminder of the Hunger Winter of 1944/1045, which shows, among other things, a bread cart and a German soldier who wants to kill the Dutch virgin. Also depicted here is the ship with which the Kamerik Food Supply Committee fetched potatoes in Friesland during the hunger winter of 1944. The balance of NLG 6360.30 remaining after the war was donated by the Committee to the municipality 'to beautify' the town hall that was to be built. The second scene shows cheese making, a milking farmer's wife and a farmer around the text 'applied during the construction of this town hall 1955' and thus refers to the main means of subsistence of the Cameroonian population. The windows on either side of the fireplace also have stained glass scenes. In the left window is the municipal coat of arms surrounded by symbols of good governance such as an owl, code of law and scales. In the right window is the provincial coat of arms with symbols of peace and prosperity such as cloverleaf, horseshoe and dove.

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