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- ↑ (in English) Gerrit van der Meer, Hollywood.com, 9 June 2016.
- ↑ (in Dutch) HBS B Christelijk Lyceum, Rotterdam Archived 2016-08-13 at the Wayback Machine , KRO-NCRV, 18 March 2012.
