The English version of “Van Alabama naar Margraten” has been published. Click here to read the flyer.
When he returned to the Netherlands in 2009, decades after World War II, Jefferson Wiggins realized that no one he met knew about the segregated US Army during the war, nor did they know about the contribution of Black American soldiers to the liberation of the Netherlands.
They were not mentioned anywhere in Dutch history books or in archives. Together with oral
historian Mieke Kirkels, Wiggins sat down to record his memories. Wiggins passed away in 2013, and his widow, Janice Wiggins, continued the project
in his memory. With newly discovered archival material, and richly illustrated, this book gives a lively account of an undocumented story of WWII, Black American, and Dutch military history.
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press, 2025
ISBN-13: 978 90 485 6836 9