Willem Kolff and his wife with their two children moved from Groninger to Kampen in 1941. Here in Kampen, on the first of July 1941 he became the first full-time physician in the history of the City Hospital.
They moved in a middle class, semi-detached house on the new estate “Zuid”, a few minutes’ walk from the hospital. Young neighbourhood with lots of families.
This is one of Willem Kolff homes in Kampen (Jan van Arkelstraat, 22).
- Photo by Luca Borghi @ (August 2025) and page layout by Mirella Spinozzi (November 2025)
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Bibliography
– Herman Broers, Inventor for Life. The Story of W. J. Kolff, Father of Artificial Organs, B&Vmedia, 2007, p. 58 and p. 103 (photo)