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Piet van den Nieuwenhof, mounted on a thoroughbred, in Echteld in 1940, when he had to serve in the Rebuilding Army.
The day that Piet and Alice met in Echteld, August 1940.
Left Jack van Gorkom and right Bill Susan in Arosa, Switzerland, in 1942 on Jack's first visit to Switzerland.
Jack in Arosa on 4th September 1942 together with Alex Swart, also known as Klein Lijf (Little Body).
Gerrit Weyte, Hans Fanoye and Jack on the verandah of Kerdel's Skihus in Arosa, 20th August 1942.
The manure team of farmer Bernhard in Arosa on 4 September 1942. Jack van Gorkom in the middle, Alex Swart right.
Left Piet van den Nieuwenhof and right Jack van Gorkom. Photo taken at a photographer's in Dordrecht in 1942.
Radiantly happy when released from the detention camp in Büren an der Aare on 11 January 1943. Third, fourth, fifth and sixth person from the left: Li, Jack, Alice and Piet respectively. Far right: Beppie and Huib Dupon.
Li and Jack van Gorkom with daughter Louise in room 67 of the hotel on 2 March 1944. They had married in Montreux on the same day as Piet and Alice.
Piet van den Nieuwenhof with his son Ray on a balcony of the hotel in April 1944. The house in the background is the post office.
Nearly the same view from one of the hotel balconies thirty years later in July 1974. Also the same post office in the background.
The post office building on 13 July 2010. Photo by Bernadette Vogel-Van den Nieuwenhof.
World War II postcard of Grand Hôtel des Narcisses in Chamby sur Montreux. The house in the foreground is the post office of Chamby.
The hotel in about 1970. Here the post office stands in the foreground. In the 1940s the post office was also a little shop and pension.
Hôtel des Narcisses in July 1974. The hotel was empty and had been deteriorating for some time already.
Hôtel des Narcisses in the Summer of 1979. Clearly, renovation had just started.
Hôtel des Narcisses on 13 July 2010. It is called Résidence Le Mirador nowadays and contains private appartments.
View from the hotel on Montreux, Lake Geneva and in the distance the French Alps. 13 July 2010.
View from Montreux on Hôtel des Narcisses. The hotel is situated right in the middle, close to the top of the photo. 13 July 2010.
