So in Anda flowed Johannes Kerkhoven blood for 12 1/2%, from mother's side,

for 25 % from her father's, plus Asian blood for 25 %.  Her Asian blood showed

itself conspicuously in her face. Her student friends called her kiddingly "the

Eskimo".

Anda had five brothers and two sisters. Her oldest brother; Adri, got the

"Bronze Cross" for his heroic efforts as an aircraft-pilot in World War II.

He died in 1951. The family Kerkhoven/Bosscha had lost another child in this

war; Anda's third brother; Joan Julian, (born: aug. 4 1909) perished in a Japanese Prisoners - of - War camp at Fukuoka in December 24, 1943....

     His remains are at the field-of-Honner; Menteng-Pulo at Jakarta (Java).

III.) Education.

She graduated from the Christian Lyceum at the Dago-road in Bandoeng

( Java) in 1937.  She was buxom, of small posture, but extremely strong

athletically, unfatiguable and never sick.  Her hobby for  biology, combined

with her exceptional idealism, made her decide to study medicine in order to

be of help for the suffering mankind.  She was full of principles, in everything.

E.g. she was a complete vegetarian - did not even touch an egg! - and evidently

a fervent anti-vivisectionist. Moreover she was a deeply devout Christian.

After enrolling at the Medical University of Batavia ( = now Jakarta),

she soon discovered that she would never be allowed to graduate if she remained conscientious objector of participation in the mandatory vivisection

experiments.... Consequently she quit that University, and enrolled - after a

long and hard search - in the Medical College of the big University of Groningen

in the north of the Netherlands which proved to be willing to admit conscientious

objectors of vivisection.  This occurred in 1938, hardly two years before the Nazi

hordes overpowered little Holland in May 1940.

IV.) The Nazi-occupation of Holland (May 10, 1940 - May 5, 1945)

This is the story of a peaceful people suddenly confronted with the worst

possible tyranny, injustice, high-treason, executions, lies, hunger and so on and

so forth.  It took the Dutch - totally unexperienced as they were in this field -

considerable time to discover all the consequences of occupation and

government by an enemy....  The possibilities of a resistance against an enemy, if you have no weapons, no free speech, no right for free assemblage, no free press, no honest jurisdiction, and lots of spies, traitors, curfews, injustices and intimidation's, in combination with shortages of food*), energy and transport are very limited indeed.  Many, very many Dutchmen discovered this unfortunately too late, and paid for it with their life....

The University students were among the first to become active in the

resistance.  Consequence?  Forceful closing of all Universities in 1943, and

deportation to the ammunition-factories in Germany.  Consequence?  Literally

hundreds of thousands Hollanders had to go into hiding, or, as it is called:

Go underground. Consequence again?  All these people lost their existence

status, viz, had no official address, no identity papers, no food rationing tickets

and so on and so forth.  To provide these "onderduikers" (lit. divers under water ) with a minimum of necessities, false papers, hiding spots etc. the secret

resistance organizations - called the "underground" - blossomed.

Evidently the experienced and well trained Nazi police in co-operation with Dutch traitors and especially their agents provocateur employed all possible and impossible means to detect underground forces; infact they did not avoid to use the worst thinkable lies, intimidations and preferably torture.

Now return to Anda...

*) During many weeks in 1945, the official ration amounted to 300 calories per

   person per week......