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Catharina is beaten by her brother
Catharina's baby dies -
Vermeer paints the Girl in Hyacinth Blue
Vermeer painted this painting of his daughter Magdalena surrounded by several objects. -
Vermeer's death
Vermeer died and Magdalena wanted him to teach her how to paint. -
Magdalena visits the auction for Vermeer's paintings
Magdalena tried to buy the painting of herself but she was not the highest bidder. This was shortly after her daughter died. -
Marta was born
Saskia's daughter Marta was born. -
Saskia finds the baby in the flood
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Aletta murders one of her children
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Aletta hanged
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St. Nicholas flood of 1717
The dikes failed. -
Period: to
Big Flood in the Netherlands
This was the flood that hit Saskia and her family. -
Gerard gives Claudine the painting
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Laurens Met Tanneke
Laurens met his first lover -
Johanna is Moving to Amsterdam
Johanna is moving in with and marrying her husband in Amsterdam -
Hannah was born
Hannah Vredenburg was born. -
Period: to
Holocaust
The Holocaust was a genocide in which some six million European Jews were killed by Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany, and the World War II collaborators with the Nazis. -
Tobias was born
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Hannah's father buys the painting
Hannah's father bought the painting at an auction after going to meetings of the Comite poor Joodsche Vluchteligen. -
Hannah killed the pigeons
Hannah killed the pigeons. -
Black Thursday
Cornelius's father Lieutenant Otto Engelbrecht participated in Black Thursday. He raided a Jewish house in Zentralstelle and stole the painting. -
Cornelius' father obtains the painting
Cornelius' father obtains the painting at 72 Rijnstraat. It was also Cornelius' third birthday.
