Bernardine Vester

Public Email   bvester@eduplus.co.nz

Genre:

Skills:

  • Autobiography / Memoir
  • Non-Fiction

Branch:

Auckland

Location:

Publications:

Southern Transformation: Searching for educational success in South Auckland.

Published by Victoria University Press, Wellington. 2016.  

Crossed Keys & Coffee Spoons

A Dutch migrant family history from the city of Leiden to Ons Dorp in Henderson, Auckland, New Zealand. Migrants bring their experiences and their heritage with them: a baker tradition that moves from wealth to loss; from hospitality to poverty.  The stories here include war-time occupation and near-starvation in Hunger Winter of 1944-45; paratrooping in Indonesia; the origins of the multi-billion-dollar flower auction business; and the