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Interview transcript / memoir (19pp ts) recording the Second World War experiences of Dutchman Jan Faber: training at the Maritime Academy in Amsterdam and merchant navy service in the coaster ROTTUM at the beginning of the war, his early (abortive) attempts to leave the Nazi-occupied Netherlands for England, involvement with clandestine groups providing assistance to Dutch Jews (at The Hague and Oss), renewed attempt in 1943 to reach the UK having got himself a job on another Dutch merchant vessel and jumping ship in Sweden, flight from Sweden to Scotland at the beginning of 1944, subsequent transfer to and MI5 interrogation at the London Reception Centre (Royal Victoria Patriotic School), from where he was handed over to the London office of the Dutch intelligence service Bureau Inlichtingen, training (including parachute jumps) in preparation for returning to the Netherlands as a Resistance agent, effected in April 1944 when he was air-dropped onto Dutch soil to play a key role in the expansion and coordination of the Resistance, a detailed account of his activities in that regard with particular reference to the establishment of wireless communications, the end of the war in May 1945 and being reunited with his family, and his postwar career, the memoir concluding with an appreciation of Faber's life by a fellow Dutch Resistance worker.
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Interview transcript / memoir (19pp ts) recording the Second World War experiences of Dutchman Jan Faber: training at the Maritime Academy in Amsterdam and merchant navy service in the coaster ROTTUM at the beginning of the war, his early (abortive) attempts to leave the Nazi-occupied Netherlands for England, involvement with clandestine groups providing assistance to Dutch Jews (at The Hague and Oss), renewed attempt in 1943 to reach the UK having got himself a job on another Dutch merchant vessel and jumping ship in Sweden, flight from Sweden to Scotland at the beginning of 1944, subsequent transfer to and MI5 interrogation at the London Reception Centre (Royal Victoria Patriotic School), from where he was handed over to the London office of the Dutch intelligence service Bureau Inlichtingen, training (including parachute jumps) in preparation for returning to the Netherlands as a Resistance agent, effected in April 1944 when he was air-dropped onto Dutch soil to play a key role in the expansion and coordination of the Resistance, a detailed account of his activities in that regard with particular reference to the establishment of wireless communications, the end of the war in May 1945 and being reunited with his family, and his postwar career, the memoir concluding with an appreciation of Faber's life by a fellow Dutch Resistance worker.
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