Dr. (Historian)
CurrentMy job includes teaching history. In 2007, I was invited to join the Institute's Board.Publications (titles translated):The repatriation of Soviet nationals from the Netherlands. 1944-1956. Myth and Fact. Amsterdam 2003. 368 pp. (Dissertation)The Transsylvanian Saxons... a dwindling minority. Soest 2009. 242 pp.Romanian Germans: once Gastsiedler, nowadays Aussiedler. Leiden 1983. 93 pp.(English) Articles concerning the German minority in Romania (1984 and 1990), on Romanian-Hungarian relations (1987), on Dutch attitudes towards Stolypin reforms in Russia, on Armenian troops in the Netherlands during WW II, on the question whether Soviet nationals were expelled from the Netherlands after the Second World War and finally on the issue of Mennonite refugees in the Netherlands in 1945-1947.Publication in 2013 of my first novel De zoon die niet was (The unknown son). In 2014 another novel was published about the never stopping sleeping car (De nachttrein bleef rijden).. Its scene is laid in the Netherlands, mainly in historical Zierikzee, Transylvania (Cluj-Napoca) and on the international sleeping cars of Wagons-Lits.