Person:Gerrit Hallers (1)

In March 1917, when Gerrit was nearly three years old, his father Bernadus died at age 39.

Gerrit was the youngest of three children. The oldest was a boy named Jan, the child in the middle was a girl named Hendrika.

Unfortunately, their mother Antonia Plant could not take care of the three children on her own. She went back to the region where she was born and raised. The three children were separated, each went to a different family.

Gerrit was taken to his