"In 1916, when Jacoba was 13, the Van Tongerens returned to the Netherlands. They settled in the Johannes Verhulststraat in Amsterdam and Jacoba attended high school. She then trained as a nurse, but fell seriously ill in 1928 with a streptococcal infection, leaving her too sick to sit her final exams. Her father rented a house in Groenekan, in the countryside, where she was cared for by a housekeeper. After eight years of treatment, she relocated to the TB sanatorium in Amersfoort, where she befriended a nurse by the name of Nel Wateler. In 1937, Jacoba and Nel returned to Amsterdam and took up residence in the Antillenstraat."
"English – Jacoba van Tongeren"
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