The Old “Schepershuis”

Here a shepherd once lived. The word “scheper” was local dialect in the Southeastern part of the Dutch province of Drenthe. I made this drawing in the beginning of the war, at a sunny afternoon. There was no road, but a very small path in the tract of heath. You could go over it with a bike, or walk. The name of the county was Knarphoom, but by the end of the war, during the liberation of The Netherlands, battalions of the Canadians and the Germans clashed here and everything has been razed to...