In 1930, the villa on the Russenduin was purchased by the Bio Vacantieoord Foundation. After several years of renovation, the house was ready in 1933 to receive the first pale noses. They could recuperate here for 6 weeks.
In 1930 the Bio-Vacantieoord Foundation bought the house. The holiday colony was opened in 1933. Many poor children from all over the Netherlands have come to recover here. After the war, the house was used again as a holiday colony home. At that time there was a lot of collecting in the cinemas. The children were given a fixed program of rest, cleanliness and regularity and, above all, had to gain weight.