Wendy van Eijnatten [2018] Lost
Verfasserwerk
Medium
Book
Language
Author Wendy van Eijnatten
Titel Lost
Untertitel The Quest for Jan van Boeckel
Verlag mogromo publishers
Jahr
2018
ISBN
9789082805505
Bemerkung
A memoir that was never written
Jan van Boeckel grew up in Haarlem in the 1930's, the years of the Great Depression, high unemployment and the surge of populist, nationalist movements in Europe. Jan witnessed the fabric of his country desintegrate, torn apart by the Nazis. Then, deeply troubled, he saw it slipping into outright war. Jan was in his early twenties when the Nazi web caught up with him. Faced with stark dilemmas he had to make choices. They were choices that have left scars and continue to echo through the years.
Wendy, Jan's niece, started out on the Quest for Jan van Boeckel in 2015. It was a journey that would take her over two years, following Jan's trail wherever it led. Weaving together family memories and historical facts she reconstructed the story of Youth in wartime Europe. It is a story that is both captivating and hearthbreaking.
We follow Jan up close, as he makes his way from Haarlem to Belgium, and onwards into the obscureness of the Nazi regime in Bavaria. As the story unfolds, we are repeatedly draws back to Haarlem, where a tightknit Dutch family waits, hopes and searches for their lost Son and brother.
Jan van Boeckel grew up in Haarlem in the 1930's, the years of the Great Depression, high unemployment and the surge of populist, nationalist movements in Europe. Jan witnessed the fabric of his country desintegrate, torn apart by the Nazis. Then, deeply troubled, he saw it slipping into outright war. Jan was in his early twenties when the Nazi web caught up with him. Faced with stark dilemmas he had to make choices. They were choices that have left scars and continue to echo through the years.
Wendy, Jan's niece, started out on the Quest for Jan van Boeckel in 2015. It was a journey that would take her over two years, following Jan's trail wherever it led. Weaving together family memories and historical facts she reconstructed the story of Youth in wartime Europe. It is a story that is both captivating and hearthbreaking.
We follow Jan up close, as he makes his way from Haarlem to Belgium, and onwards into the obscureness of the Nazi regime in Bavaria. As the story unfolds, we are repeatedly draws back to Haarlem, where a tightknit Dutch family waits, hopes and searches for their lost Son and brother.
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