Several months ago (April!) I received an email from a German researcher, Heinz-Jörgen K.-v.H. who has been tracing the lives of the Katz family. Those who follow this blog might recall that Lily (née Katz) Knips was a Jewish widow living in Berlin, who in 1938, was introduced to Josef Jakobs by friends. Josef tried […]
Some of the communications I’ve received this past week. Harm Knol Bruins – Dutch Spy I received an email this week from Ivar B. whose great aunt-in-law was the second wife of Harm Knol Bruins, Dutch engineer and German spy. I’ve updated my blog post (link above) with the info that Ivar shared. The most
A rather torrential January has resulted in a basement flood and the discovery that our household perimeter drain is not up to snuff. Much mud and digging at the moment. This blog is therefore on temporary hiatus for a few weeks until life rights itself.
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This blog schedule has been a bit disrupted of late. I normally try to have things pre-posted several weeks in advance but… circumstances sometimes intervene. A few weeks ago, Josef’s last surviving child, my father, Raymond Jakobs, passed away at the age of 86 on the west coast of Canada. My Dad lived a long,
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