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
Running off (1944)
- 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
The van Boeckel family in Haarlem (1940 – 1945)
- Idyllic thirties
- A Child’s Eye
- Processions in the Hunger Winter
The Search (1945 – now)
- 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…
I will gladly read the book you are writing. I am so thankful for all the young people who gave their lives for our freedom. We should care about that
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Absolutely!
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Gosh you’ve made a good start. And to think, you already have much of it written. So exciting!
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it certainly is. Time is the only constraint..
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