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Submitted by Charles in Shanghai on Wed, 2020-09-16 00:24

Philip Harding Klimanek (1883-1965) was born in the Czech Republic, at the time his place of birth was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. In ca. 1905 he started to work for Holland-China Trading Company, in Hong Kong.

In 1939, when Charles Gesner van der Voort arrived in Shanghai to work for the company, he was Charles' superior. In a letter home he wrote: "Played chess with Klimanek in the French Club" [translation Pieter Lommerse, the French Club was Le Cercle Sportif Français, a fashionable place to be in the 1930s and it still exists today]. <Read more ...>

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1934

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Leaving Shanghai: portrait of Sylvia Klimanek and the captain of s.s. Zuiderkerk, 1934

Submitted by Charles in Shanghai on Wed, 2020-09-16 00:22

Philip Harding Klimanek (1883-1965) was born in the Czech Republic, at the time his place of birth was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. In ca. 1905 he started to work for Holland-China Trading Company, in Hong Kong.

In 1939, when Charles Gesner van der Voort arrived in Shanghai to work for the company, he was Charles' superior. In a letter home he wrote: "Played chess with Klimanek in the French Club" [translation Pieter Lommerse, the French Club was Le Cercle Sportif Français, a fashionable place to be in the 1930s and it still exists today]. <Read more ...>

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1934

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View from Java-China-Japan Line m.s. Tjisadane arrving in Hong Kong, May 1937

Submitted by Charles in Shanghai on Sun, 2020-06-21 18:25

Charles Gesner van der Voort (1916-1991) was part of a group of Dutch bachelors in pre-war Shanghai. Another member of this group was David van Gelderen (1908-1990), originally from Rotterdam. He arrived in Shanghai in 1933, working for Unilever, a merger of the operations of Dutch Margarine Unie and British soap maker Lever Brothers. <Read more ...>

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):

1937

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Java-China-Japan Line m.s. Tjisadane Passenger list 19 May 1937 Jakarta-Shanghai via Hong Kong, Xiamen

Submitted by Charles in Shanghai on Sun, 2020-06-21 18:22

Passenger list Java-China-Japan Line m.s. Tjisadane, 19 May 1937, Jakarta (Batavia) to Shanghai via Hong Kong and Xiamen (Amoy). It contains the name of David van Gelderen, returning from a long leave in the Netherlands.

<a href="https://old.gwulo.com/%3Ca%20href%3D"https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koninklijke_Java-China-Paketvaart_Lijnen">https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koninklijke_Java-China-Paketvaart_Lijnen" rel="noreferrer nofollow">nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koninklijke_Java-China-Paketvaart_L...</a>
m.s. Tjisadane was in use from 1931 to 1947. <Read more ...>

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1937

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Java-China-Japan Line m.s. Tjisadane Passenger list 19 May 1937 Jakarta-Shanghai via Hong Kong, Xiamen

Submitted by Charles in Shanghai on Sun, 2020-06-21 18:19

Passenger list Java-China-Japan Line m.s. Tjisadane, 19 May 1937, Jakarta (Batavia) to Shanghai via Hong Kong and Xiamen (Amoy). It contains the name of David van Gelderen, returning from a long leave in the Netherlands, to Shanghai, where he worked for Unilever. <Read more ...>

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):

1937

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