On July 20, 1946 two siblings from Tilburg, the Netherlands, both in their twenties, boarded the M.S. Noordam in Rotterdam. One week later Jan Franken and his sister Annemie arrived in New York. After a flight to Milwaukee they were welcomed by their friend John Coleman, whom they first met during the war. Jan and Read more…
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War cemetery Bloemendaal
Today I visited the Noord-Hollands Archief in Haarlem. One of my clients asked me to look for some documents about his great-grandfather who lived for more than five years in psychiatric hospitals. After my trip to the archives, I drove from Haarlem to Zandvoort to see the North Sea beach. It is a beautiful way Read more…


