Between the center and north of Amsterdam is the pontoon bridge which was reconstructed a temporary fixed connection in 1945. The pontoon feathers flying when not from lack of fuel.
The Amsterdam 4 and 5 May Committee wanted to recreate the pontoon bridge last year, but the project then had to be canceled due to bad weather. Although in 2015 sixty people who had lived through the pontoon bridge in 1945, recorded their stories.
At six points on the pontoon bridge were those stories Thursday retold by children from Amsterdam.
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the 81-year-old Adrienne Vrijling is one of the people who experienced the ‘real’ pontoon bridge in 1945 and there was Thursday again. He made a critical moment when it in 1945 as a piece of drifting away from the bridge.
According to him was that the waves from shipping. It took then was a half hour until everything back in its place and weather was fastened together. ” My mother was troubled because I did not come home, ” said Vrijling
He remembers the bridge traffic:. ” A few cars, but mostly horse and carriage, pedestrians, bicycles, mopeds, everything through each other through ” A stray agent tried to say his order to bring the chaos
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