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February 21, 2011 By Janneke

Homesickness-Heimwee Epilogue

(read Dutch Heritage page first) Epilogue circa 1970’s, me. For some reason, I have not been able to put my feet on my Dutch-Frisian home soil again. Beloved family members drove Pake (Frisian grandfather), Mammie and I over antiek weggetjes (antique roads) to find my grandparents’ last farm house …

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February 21, 2011 By Janneke

Sweetness after Trauma -2, Oma

In my family two of the sweet people were my maternal grandparents in The Netherlands (Holland) who I called Beppe (grandmother) and Pake (grandfather). They had each lived through WWI (when the Netherlands was able to be considered a neutral country), lost  a farm in the years of the Great …

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February 21, 2011 By Janneke

Sweetness After Trauma – 1

(Read War's Family Page, first) “Have you ever seen people who through some disaster were driven to great times of prayer? And have you noticed that once the disaster was long forgotten, a spiritual sweetness remained that warmed their souls?” June 12 Streams in the Desert L. B. Cowman I’m not …

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Janneke Jobsis Brown
Following Shadows is inspired by my own story. As a survivor of an international childhood with parents who were World War II survivors, I know the generational after-effects of starvation and slave labor in Japanese concentration camps for my father, and the terror of Nazi occupation for my mother. I know the challenges of struggling to feel at home across three countries: The Netherlands, Iran and America.

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