Manja Croiset. Amsterdam, July 5,1946.The youngest of three daughters SHOAH survivors. Her father, was in concentration camps because of underground printing, including HET PAROOL started as a resistance newspaper. Her mother lost her entire family-(grand)parents, brother and sister-during this tragic period of history. Paula Kool March 11, 1918 - May 11, 2012.Her father,Odo Croiset April 24,1915- November 18,2011 As a girl, she felt invisible, with no right to fear or sorrow because of the t...

Truely amazing stories told by Ghanaian men who ventured over land or sea in search for a better future. They cross the Sahara desert to Libya where jobs are available if you accept the insults that go with them. Then on into shaky boats for Europe...

Stories by Ghanaian emigrants that you can feel in all their raw resiliance and beautiful sense of humor.

The dramatic date of Plato’s dialogue Meno cannot be meaningfully determined until this character has been identified as one of the generals from Xenophon’s Anabasis. Researchers have attempted to date Plato’s dialogue immediately prior to this Voyage of the Ten Thousand that began in 401 BC, but have been pushed back to the winter of 403/402 based on conservative estimates. Renewed reading and factual research have filled the gaps so that Meno can finally be pushed forward to the year ...

In his thirty-five-year career he worked in Turkey, former Dutch Nieuw-Guinea and Indonesia. These were during the controversial cold war years in countries going through massive changes themselves coming out of colonialism. For Motorsports, this was deemed the Golden Era where sex was safe and racing dangerous. He was part of the generation that laid the foundation for Indonesian Motorsports to what it is today. In this remarkable autobiography, his son takes you on a rough-and-tumble ride t...

This book tells the life story of Henri Langie. An ordinary boy from Ronse who achieved extraordinary feats during his military career. Voluntarily joining the forces of the Belgian army during the First World War as a stretcher-bearer, he rose to the rank of Honorary Major shortly after the Second World War when he retired.

Based on his carefully preserved diaries, army archives, and personal photos, we reconstruct Henri's life story and attempt to cast a clear light on the past, while also ...