During the Second World War, a Dutch-Jewish family had to go into hiding to avoid deportation to Germany. When the war was over, they emigrated to the United States. Almost eighty years later, they remain in contact with the Dutch families that helped them survive. Eline Hopperus Buma reveals how the war created a tale of intertwined family histories spanning three generations.
“I have no recollection of those years in Diepenveen,” Otto Verdoner tells me when we first meet in Spring 2010 at Denver International Airport. He is seventy-one, but I recognize him straightaway from the photographs. [Read more…] about Recollections and Reconnections: War History as Family History
On Christmas Day 1934, just a year after ratification of the Twenty-First Amendment which repealed 
Be it on an individual or organizational or global level, life is punctuated by times of crisis. A state of uncertainty confuses “normal” forms of reasoning and acting. Although predominantly associated with negative affect, crises serve as a catalyst for creative exploits.
