AADAS Association for the Advancement of Dutch-American Studies THE DUTCH: Emigration to North America April 29 – May 11, 2020 Hosted by Henk Aay and Mary Risseeuw hy, from where, and how did the Dutch immigrate to North America (and other continents) beginning in the mid-nineteenth century and continuing until after W WWII? And who left? This tour answers these and other migration questions. Led by Dutch experts, you visit provinces with a history of large outmigration, ports of embarkation and a variety of immigration exhibits at local museums. Are you interested in your own Dutch heritage? Plan to stay a few days longer to bring your own history to life. DUTCH MIGRatION HISTORY IN A Netherlands in large numbers. More streams from the Netherlands were to NUTSHELL recently, many asylum seekers from its 16th and 17th-century colonies and countries around the world have made trading centers in parts of what today From the beginning, migration has been the Netherlands their home. are the United States, Suriname, South part of human history. Like every other Africa, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Taiwan and country, the area that today Brazil. Another significant wave, makes up the Netherlands has this time largely to the United experienced both continuous States, took place from the mid- immigration and emigration 19th century to around 1920. throughout its history. The availability of inexpensive First, immigration. During land and the desire for religious the early phases of hunting freedom helped fuel this and gathering and agriculture emigration. Right after WWII different tribes came and until the early 1960s, another settled. Later, refugees arrived emigration push—brought from Jewish communities and on by housing shortages, Protestant areas in Catholic agricultural economies of scale Europe. Many Germans and and mechanization, and fear of eastern Europeans came and another European war—brought settled to take advantage of Dutch residents to other mid- economic opportunities during latitude countries around the the 17th and 18th centuries. world: Canada, United States, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. During the 20th century, economic Now for emigration. Our tour is focused In this century, emigration has ticked up migrants from Mediterranean lands such on Dutch emigration to North America again but this time principally to other as Turkey and Morocco and people from during the 19th and 20th centuries but it European Community countries. former Dutch colonial territories such is important to have the bigger context as Suriname and Indonesia came to the in mind. The first significant emigration SALE! Limited ed by Time Only: Henk Aay and Mary Risseeuw Register by Oct. 1 Henk has 30 years of Mary is a genealogist, to receive a $100 experience leading historian, writer, discount.* student and adult teacher and lecturer. Tour Cost groups on tours of She has researched $4,454 per person from Chicago, the Netherlands. 19th & 20th century based on double occupancy He is Professor Dutch immigration to of Geography and Wisconsin for 30 years REGISTER ONLINE AT Environmental Studies, Emeritus at Calvin and has lectured throughout the Midwest bookings.wittetravel.com University. Since retiring from Calvin in and the Netherlands on the subject. She 2012, he is Senior Research Fellow at has a B.S. from UW-Madison and an M.A. use booking code the Van Raalte Institute at Hope College, & M.F.A. from Northern Illinois University. 042920AAY where he focuses on Dutch American Mary has taken numerous trips to the or complete and return the printed history and culture. He grew up in the Netherlands and has traveled extensively registration form. Netherlands, is fluent in Dutch, and has in the Achterhoek and Zeeland. spent a number of semesters on research and teaching leaves in the country. *Discount will be added to your account after we process your registration. This will appear on your confirmation statement, sent by mail, within two weeks of your registration. April/May 2020 1, Friday 2, Saturday 29, Wednesday Frisian Coastal Het Hogeland, Groningen | Depart Communities | Region of Region of High Outmigration High Outmigration Check in at O’Hare International Airport Today we drive through the Hogeland, for the overnight transatlantic flight to After breakfast we will drive from another region of 19th-century high Amsterdam Schiphol Airport. (D-in flight) Zwolle to Leeuwarden, the capital of outmigration. We will be joined by the Province of Friesland. There we will a historian from the University of 30, Thursday meet Dr. Annemieke Galema, author of Groningen. Our first stop is in Ulrum, Arrive, Arnhem, Zwolle Frisians to America, 1880-1914. We will Groningen, one of the first sites of the enjoy coffee, tea, and oranjekoek(!) and Welcome to the Netherlands! After going Secession of 1834 (a split in the Dutch listen to her talk about emigration from through passport control and customs Reformed Church). Seceders from the Friesland. She will then guide us on a tour we meet our driver/guide, who takes state church made up a significant portion through the coastal areas of the province us to the Open-air Museum in Arnhem. of the early immigrants. After visiting the that experienced high outmigration. Because a significant number of 19th- church in Ulrum we will drive through We will stop for lunch in Zwarte Haan century Dutch immigrants to the U.S. the region, taking note of the economic in the region of Het Bildt. Over lunch, came from rural villages and farms, we circumstances contributing to emigration some Friesland guests will join our will focus our visit on such displays. from this area. We will stop for lunch conversation. Each of our guests has A guide will show and interpret these at Verhilverdsum, a fortified house and relatives in North America. Then we return exhibits for us. The museum tram line will country estate (borg in Dutch) and have to Zwolle. (B, L) allow us to easily move from one display another opportunity to talk with some to another. After the visit, we will drive residents who have relatives in North to Zwolle and check into our hotel there. America. After lunch we will complete After some rest and relaxation, we will Grote Markt in Zwolle our tour of the area and head back to our www.mkb-in-overijssel.nl hotel in Zwolle. (B, L) enjoy a welcome dinner at the hotel. 6.6.2013 public domain (B-in flight, D) Aerial Photo of Dordrecht with the Grote or Onze Lieve Vrouwenkerk https://beeldbank. rws.nl, Rijkswaterstaat Cover: Immigrants on Pier of the Holland America Line, by the Statendam, 1920 Permission, Heritage Hall, Calvin University, Grand Rapids, MI 3, Sunday 4, Monday 5, Tuesday Zwolle Achterhoek, Gelderland | Liberation Day | Dutch Today you set the itinerary. Use your Region of High Outmigration Holiday free day to explore Zwolle or take the After breakfast we will head to Today is the celebration of the surrender train to neighboring places. Top sites in Winterswijk, a town with strong of Nazi Germany. Throughout the country, Zwolle include the Sassenpoort tower and connections to America’s Midwest. parades and festivals take place. The day gate, the Grote kerk, and the Museum From Winterswijk alone, 4,000 - 6,000 is free, so that we can participate in this de Fundatie. If you want get out of town people emigrated between 1840 and event at our leisure. Area museums will consider visiting nearby Kampen (an old 1920. Here, local historians will explain be open, so you can also continue your Hanseatic City), Hattem (a very attractive, the emigration beginning in the 1840s of exploration of Zwolle and surroundings. nearby small city with many historic Achterhoek families to the Midwest and Be sure to take some time to pack your sites and museums), Staphorst (known the impact on the local communities. bags; we’ll be changing hotels tomorrow. for the traditional dress still worn by the We’ll see the memorial to the victims of (B) elder generations), or Giethoorn (a town the Phoenix shipwreck, which burned on of thatched-roofed houses connected by Lake Michigan in 1847. The tour will also waterways). include stops in Aalten and Bredevoort. We will tour the Dutch Reformed Church in Aalten and view the murals that were uncovered—dating to the time the church was Roman Catholic. In Bredevoort we will explore the remains of the castle and the 17th-century gate, St. Joriskerk, and the historic centre. From there we return to Zwolle, where the evening is free. (B, L) Day Laborer Cottage, Nunspeet, Open Air Museum Creative Commons Naamsvermelding- GelijkDelen 4.0 Internationaal Oude Biltdijk, Oude Biltzijl Copyright Raimond Spekking, Wikimedia Commons Farm Ottama in the Hogeland, Groningen (public domain) Wikimedia Commons Part of the Open Air exhibits at the Maritime Museum Rotterdam, photo courtesy Henk Aay 6, Wednesday 7, Thursday 8, Friday Noord Brabant | Catholic The Hague Archive | Rotterdam | Emigration Migration Antwerp Emigration Port Port We will drive from Zwolle to the city of We will begin our day at the National Today we will drive from Dordrecht to Nijmegen, home of Radboud University, Archives in The Hague with a talk led the Maritime Museum in Rotterdam a Catholic institution. There we will by Johan van Lange highlighting the where curator, Irene Jacobs, will speak proceed to the Catholic Documentation materials in their collection related to and show us some of the immigration Center where Dr. Hans Krabbendam is overseas emigration. Items from the artifacts in the collections of the museum. the director. He is the author of Freedom collection will be available to browse We will also have an opportunity to visit on the Horizon: Dutch Immigration to and you will learn what the archives hold the general and special exhibits both in America, 1840-1940.