Bernardine Vester

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