But it didn't deliver any more information, just because we didn't have the right entrance.
Some people offered their help.
One never returned the message he wanted me to send to get him going.
I assumed others tried too.
Recently I sat down with a historian.
He said those young Dutch boys were indeed going to Canada for training.
According to him there was even a "Dutch school" (if he remembered well).
So he said me to contact the National Archives of The Netherlands again.
Even gave me the email.
I got a relatively fast reaction.
"Look on the site."
https://www.nationaalarchief.
Of course I have been trying to find my father on that site.
When it was first online, and several times later.
But his name didn't pop up at all.
So I contacted Miss or Mrs. FS again.
This time she pointed out that on that same page, a few lines lower it says:
There are people, born after 1924, who are not in the searchsystem for privacy reasons.
Ofcourse I have read that before.
But which privacy is served?
I had sent her, in the first request, a copy of the declaration of death, dated 23 september 1989.
Now I told her that his parents have died, of course.
His brothers and sister don't live anymore.
Nor does my own sister.
So what is going on?
Asked her to explain the privacy part if she still doesn't want to look things up.
Waiting for an answer.
But the U-turned seemed not to be far enough...
One can go into local archives to find out who lived at the house-address during the war.
It was noted by the Germans when a person didn't live there anymore.
So we can get an idea of when he disappeared...
I've sent the local archives a mail to look that up.
Waiting for an answer.
One can go into local archives to find out who lived at the house-address during the war.
It was noted by the Germans when a person didn't live there anymore.
So we can get an idea of when he disappeared...
I've sent the local archives a mail to look that up.
Waiting for an answer.
We chatted a bit about common experiences in life and which one I shared with my father.
So I said I worked at the same national organisation: The PTT. (The national post telephone and telegraph company.) But at different jobs and different places.
Turned out that when returning from England, those young men were wanted for their technical skills an knowledge.
But before they got the job they went through a very thorough examination of their past.
So there are files about that.
In most cases they had also to answer questions about how they got in England.
And of course about their schooling.
Their archives are not subject to the enormously strict privacy rules.
So......
That's a u-turn back to his parental house, and right opposite to his job after he returned.
So I said I worked at the same national organisation: The PTT. (The national post telephone and telegraph company.) But at different jobs and different places.
Turned out that when returning from England, those young men were wanted for their technical skills an knowledge.
But before they got the job they went through a very thorough examination of their past.
So there are files about that.
In most cases they had also to answer questions about how they got in England.
And of course about their schooling.
Their archives are not subject to the enormously strict privacy rules.
So......
That's a u-turn back to his parental house, and right opposite to his job after he returned.
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