Introduction

• Letting his/story be
• A guide to the quest for Jan van Boeckel
• Synopsis
• The why’s and the how’s

Hiding and Farewell (1942 – 1943)

• 1942 Devilish Dilemmas
• Drafted by Hitler
• Lying low in the low lands
• Reweaving the tapestry of a lost life
• To England and the great unknown

• Planning and planes
• Oisterwijk: The southern marshes
• Dames, Chaplains and Smugglers
• Belgian beginnings

Resistance (1944)

• Joining the Maquisards in the Ardennes
• Partisans de Houffalize, Maquis D’Engreux
• Losing a leader
• Band of boys
• Arrested at the mill of Rahimont( Has to be rewritten!)
• Wecome to Amt IV
• Lüttich Zittadelle

Prisons (1944/1945)

• Deportation to the Reich
• Transport Ministry
• Singing in a monastery
• Lost to the Nazis

Flossenbürg (1945)

• As did Leon and Raphaël
• Written on the forehead
• Hell’s Gate
• The book of names at Flossenbürg
• Confronting tough truths

Saal an der Donau (1945)

• Ringberg Messerschmitt: Ring-Me
• Being a number: Saal an der Donau
• Slim chances in Saal and Dachau
• A headless beast

Dachau (1945)

• Arrival at Dachau
• Liberation for some, too late for others
• From Holland to Bavaria: The quest starts at Dachau
• The way to recognition

• Idyllic thirties
• A Child’s Eye
• Processions in the Hunger Winter

• Beautiful nature, Ugly history
• Where is Jan?
• A dire warning…
• More than expected…?
• Where do we go from here?
• A broken chain
• Reflections
• On the look-out
• Delving the past

And there is more to come…