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From 'Memories of Brother Theophile Nijman!‘
12 October 1944.
When we went to Roosendaal yesterday, we came across nine Canadians, prisoners of war under armed escort. Later I heard that they were locked up in our school and in the coal shed! On the tiled floor with some straw on top, peanut wire in front of the windows and two guards in front of it! The wretches are still there, I haven't even seen them airing.
16 October 1944
The number of POW Canadians had grown to 20. The coal shed apparently became too small, because in the night from Saturday to Sunday they were taken away. When we heard shooting all day, always in the direction of Bergen op Zoom, it no longer impressed us. Once in a while you hear a loud bang, coming from closer by, like this morning. We have been used to the hunters for weeks now; at best, you just keep an eye on them and carry on.
Whatever is happening in Woensdrecht, Ossendrecht and Hoogerheide or in Zeeland, you catch the occasional message from people listening to English radio. We do nothing all day but wait. I read a lot, run errands and the days go by pretty quickly. How peacefully our people lived here, how good we used to have it....... Of course, we also used to disagree with each other sometimes, that's never possible, but what we had to blame each other for were such petty things compared to now.
