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A LongLost Story From NaziOccupied Holland. An old tennis racket, a skating medal, one monogrammed cigarette case newly discovered mementoes of a life of a relative no one talked about. For more than 40 years, Aletta Stevens knew very little about Johannes Joop Doedenias Schweitzer, her uncle who died in the Second World War. Starting with a hopeful internet search, she decided to find out what really happened to him. In this book she draws on personal testimonies from people who once knew him, unpublished letters, and official war documentation, as well as revisiting her own upbringing in 1970s Holland. The story builds to a

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Book category Books in English Biography & True Stories Biography: general

• Full title: Looking for Uncle Joop
• Author: Aletta Stevens
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224
• EAN: 9781853981876
• ISBN: 9781853981876
• ID: 15540036
• Publisher: Ashgrove Publishing Ltd
• Weight: 276 g
• Dimensions: 191 × 136 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 11. May 2017

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