When Hendrika Lanting was born on 12 June 1909, in Hoogkerk, Groningen, Netherlands, her father, Gijsbertus Lanting, was 39 and her mother, Antje Taekes Damstra, was 40. She married Hindrik Ritzema on 1 June 1929, in Hoogkerk, Groningen, Netherlands. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She died on 30 April 1988, in Groningen, Netherlands, at the age of 78.
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During WWI, the Netherlands declared that they were neutral and stayed so during the war.
WWI. Despite Dutch neutrality in World War I (1914-18), the Netherlands suffers from severe food shortages, triggering street riots.
July 4, 1934, Jordanians in Amsterdam revolted because of reduction in employment.
Dutch: patronymic from Lanto, a short form of an ancient Germanic personal name composed with the element land ‘land, territory’.
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