The 1996 Dakota-crash in the Wadden Sea
The island of Texel, the biggest of the Dutch Wadden Islands, has an important place in my personal history; my grandfather and my mother (his daughter) were both born on …
The scars that the 2001 tragedy left on the village of Volendam
The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction defines disaster as: “a serious disruption of the functioning of a community or a society involving widespread human, material, economic or environmental …
Rotterdam Through the Eyes of a Disaster
Written and photography by Aida Bilajbegovic 14/11/2014 In 1940 on the 14th of May at 13:30 hours Rotterdam got bombed by the Germans. This bombardment was part of a bigger …