Media item

105-year-old presents her great-great-grandchild for baptism

Week number 58-46

Newsreels in which Dutch subjects of a certain week are presented.

Type:
video
Length:
01:15
Publication date:
9 November 1958
User:
Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
Creator:
Polygoon-Profilti (producer) / Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (curator)
Source:
WEEKNUMMER584-HRE00012A38

The 105-year-old Hendrikje Smit-Meyering is taken to the Kloosterkerk (Monastery Church) in Ter Apel in a wheelchair. There she presents Richard Veldman from Alblasserdam, her great-great-grandchild for baptism. Minister Van Nieuwenhuize batpizes the child.