![]() ![]() Although he was forced to spend a year at a labour camp in Germany, some of his bitterest war memories included the military fortification of De Beer, and subsequently its post-war Europoort industrial development, polluting the Rhine–Maas delta. He witnessed the city's bombing in 1940, and its German occupation until 1945. Familiar from childhood with the park's wildlife, Gerrit went to secondary school in Rotterdam and assisted in surveying the plants and animals of the wildlife sanctuary at De Beer, outside the city, in the late 1930s. Van Gelderen, Gerrit (1926–94), naturalist, wildlife film-maker, broadcaster, and author, was born 26 August 1926 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, eldest child of Johannes Gerardus van Gelderen, a local-authority employee who lived within the municipal park where he worked. ![]()
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