Jan Duijvestein

Jan Duijvestein was born in The Hague, Holland, into a large middle-class Catholic family with seven children-all of whom miraculously survived the war. Wartime dangers never damaged his infectious optimism. Eventually, Jan set up a realty business in The Hague. When the Cold War threatened Europe once again in the 1970s, memories of his liberation by American troops influenced his decision to emigrate to the United States of America with his own young family. Later circumstances led Jan back...See more

Jan Duijvestein was born in The Hague, Holland, into a large middle-class Catholic family with seven children-all of whom miraculously survived the war. Wartime dangers never damaged his infectious optimism. Eventually, Jan set up a realty business in The Hague. When the Cold War threatened Europe once again in the 1970s, memories of his liberation by American troops influenced his decision to emigrate to the United States of America with his own young family. Later circumstances led Jan back to his hometown, where he wrote down these wartime recollections as a legacy to his first grandchild. See less