Compendium of sources and links used:

Books:

Peter &  Elfrieda Dyck - Up from the rubble, Herald Press 1991
Perry Pierik - Van Leningrad tot Berlijn, Nederlandse vrijwilligers in dienst van de Waffen SS 1941-1945 Aspect, 1995
H.Hovinga - Eindstation Pakan Baroe 1943-1945 Buijten en Schipperheijn, 4rd imprint, 1982
A.Bosma - Thihapit Bandoen, Kamp Solo, Lampersari, Semarang, kampdagboek van Anneke Bosma, mijneigenboek.nl, 2005.
P.Wijbenga - Friesland in Bezettingstijd(3 volumes), De Tille, 1973
C.Ailsby - Waffen SS- Hitlers black guard at war,  Siena, 1997 (read in the dutch translation by P.H.Geurink: De Geschiedenis van de Waffen SS, Deltas, 2005)
A.Noorlag - Een leven lang gezwegen, Profiel uitgeverij, 2007.
J.S.Postma - Gewoon een beetje anders ("Just a little different"), the handwritten memoirs of my dad of more than 325 pages, never published. His handwriting is terrible(like mine :-)), but the story is coherent. 1990.
J.S.Postma - Das niederländische Erbe der preußisch-rußlänidischen Mennoniten in Europa, Asien und Amerika, Marburg, 1958.
H.Nijkeuter - Geschiedenis van de Drentse literatuur 1816-1956, van Gorcum, 2003.
Geert Mak - In Europa, Amstel uitgevers, 2004.
A.D.Belinfante - In plaats van bijltjesdag("Instead of revenge"), Amsterdam, 2006.

Links:

Nederlands Instituut voor Oorlogsdocumentatie: NIOD(Former RIOD): NIOD
About the Dutch Indies: Dutch Indies
About the Mennonites: Mennonites
About the history of Emmen: Historisch Emmen
About the city of Emmen: Emmen
About the famous Zoo of Emmen: Zoo
About Avifauna: http://www.avifauna.nl/
About Zwarte Haan: Wikipedia "Zwarte Haan"
About Ruinerwold: http://www.historieruinerwold.nl
About dutch ancestors: http://www.genlias.nl
About the german prison in Scheveningen: http://oranjehotel.org/
About the former concentrationcamp Westerbork
About the SS and the "Wiking brigade": SS Division Wiking
About Dutchmen in the Waffen SS: Dutchmen in the Waffen SS.
About the Pakan Baroe death railway: http://au.geocities.com/frans_taminiau/
About Warns, the village I grew up and Joop was a minister of religion: http://www.warns.nl/ (site in dutch and frisian)
About the Kristallnacht: Kristallnacht
About Davos and the sanatoria there: Davos
About the history of antibiotics: Antibiotics

A very newly made site - with support from governemental and other institutions is: http://www.openarchief.nl.
Its a collection of self-told stories of children from parents who were 'wrong' in WWII. My sister Janna Frouwkje Postma tells her story there too. It's all in Dutch.

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