Publications

Until recently, hardly anything was known in the Netherlands about the participation of over a million African American soldiers in the liberation of the Netherlands, nor about the segregated US Army during WWII.

After the book ‘Kinderen van zwarte bevrijders – een verzwegen geschiedenis’ [The children of Black liberators – an untold history] (Mieke Kirkels, Vantilt 2017) had been published, the idea arose to produce a digital reading and textbook: www.black­liberators.nl.

The book ‘Kinderen van zwarte bevrijders’ [Children of Black liberators] by Mieke Kirkels was published in April 2017. She writes about the touching untold history of liberators’ children in the Netherlands who have dark complexions.

The book ‘Tekens uit Nepal’ [Signs from Nepal), illustrated by students of The Kavre Deaf School in Nepal, depicts the world of deaf people living in one of the poorest countries in the world.

The beautifully designed black and white photo book reflects on the village of Nederweert and its surroundings in the years 1950-1970. Those were the waning last days of prosperous Catholic life, after the reconstruction years and in the era of the baby-boom generation, photographed by Jef Kirkels (1919-1997).

‘Else Hanöver, Oorlogsjaren in Maastricht ’ [War years in Maastricht] is the story of Else Hanöver, a young woman born in Aachen, Germany, who was a secretary to Maastricht’s mayor before and during WWII. The book is based on her biography. Else was involved at the start of the adoption of the graves by people in the region during her war years in Maastricht.

In November 1944, the burial of more than twenty thousand victims of the Second World War began on the Margraten Plateau.

Portrait of the Faculty of Architecture of the Delft University of Technology, 1970-2008 A tangible memory of a special building that no longer exists.

In the Netherlands, a small group of biracial citizens have entered their eighth decade of life that had often been puzzling and difficult, but who offer a unique insight into the history of race relations in America.

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.

This book tells the story of life during World War II for Else Hanöver, a young woman from Maastricht. In 2000, at the request of her children, Else wrote down her life story using diaries she had meticulously kept during the war years.