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Toen het toch gebeurdeVeel is er in Nederland geschreven over de Jodenvervolging tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog. En terecht. Wat daarbij minder aan bod kwam is hoe het de Joden in het katholieke Zuid Limburg verging. Hoe verliep de co existentie van twee geloven in het gebied rond en in het bekende toeristenstadje Valkenburg bijvoorbeeld? Wat voor invloed had de verstrengeling van tradities en gebruiken op het moment dat een van de twee geloofsgroepen vervolgd en

Veel is er in Nederland geschreven over de Jodenvervolging tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog. En terecht. Wat daarbij minder aan bod kwam is hoe het de Joden in het katholieke Zuid-Limburg verging. Hoe verliep de co-existentie van twee geloven in het gebied rond en in het bekende toeristenstadje Valkenburg bijvoorbeeld? Wat voor
invloed had de verstrengeling van tradities en gebruiken op het moment dat een van de twee geloofsgroepen vervolgd en gedeporteerd werd? Hoe zat het met de hulp aan de Joden en wat hadden zij van hun buren en bekenden te verwachten en te vrezen? De getuigenissen verzamelde Gabriel Smeets 35 jaar geleden in zijn geboorteplaats
Valkenburg aan de Geul. Hij sprak met de overlevenden van de Shoah: met geboren en getogen Joodse Valkenburgers, wier voorouders al in Valkenburg woonden, met Duitse Joden die zich in Valkenburg vestigden, met een gemengd gehuwde, katholiek gedoopte dochter uit een bekend Joods Valkenburgs gezin, met de zus van de half-Joodse
en in Valkenburg geboren verzetsstrijder Gerard Soesman en een overlevende van de kampen Westerbork en Theresienstadt die al voor de oorlog in Valkenburg kwam en na de oorlog trouwde met de voorzitter van de Valkenburgse Joodse Gemeente. Hun verhalen vormen de kern van dit boek. Het zijn de stemmen van hen die het meemaakten. Er wordt niet over hen geschreven. Zij komen zelf aan het woord.


“Smeets’ boek is belangrijk en lezenswaardig, het laat indringend zien dat het
grote drama ook aan een kleine Limburgse Joodse gemeenschap niet voorbij ging.
Je wordt er zelf getuige van.”
Herman van Rens

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Gabriel Smeets (1958) werd geboren en groeide op in Valkenburg-Houthem als zoon van de familie Smeets-Crolla van het Huis aan de Brug. Hij studeerde beeldende vorming en kunstgeschiedenis en was docent Beeldende Vorming. Smeets schreef van 1996-2006 over theater en dans voor ToneelTheatraal en Theatermaker . Van 2000-2006 was hij . mentor van het postgraduate programma DASARTS in Amsterdam. Als fellow was hij in 2005 verbonden aan het The National Art Journalism Program van Colombia University New York. Van 2006 tot 2014 was hij artistiek leider van de School for New Dance Development aan de Academie voor Theater en Dans Amsterdam en van 2014 tot 2022 werkte hij als artistiek directeur van Cullberg, het nationale gezelschap voor hedendaagse dans in Zweden. Als dramaturg werkte hij met Aziz Bekkaoui, Marina Abramović, Jefta van Dinther en Ibrahim Quraishi. Momenteel woont en werkt hij in Frankrijk.

 

 

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It smells as good as my cologne.
I never go out without a shot of Guerlain L'Homme Idéal L'Intense cologne. Guerlain does not offer a layered line of products with similar scents. I wanted a deodorant and body wash to match. None of the Old Spice scents came close. Axe Oud Wood & Dark Vanilla antiperspirant has more vanilla and is a bit subdued but works. Finding a body wash was harder. Cremo Spice & Black Vanilla Body Wash sounded promising, but I was apprehensive about its scent including tobacco. I did not want to smell like an ashtray. But when I opened the bottle, I was met with a surprising scent from the past. I immediately recognized it as premium Danish pipe tobacco. Most people do not recognize this aromatic scent as coming from tobacco at all. In fact, it smells more like fresh cured tobacco itself, not its smoke. This adds a very pleasant and masculine smell to the body wash on top of the spice, wood, and vanilla scent I was searching for. The scent only lasts a few hours after you rinse off. One push on the dispenser puts enough soap on a shower loofah to wash your whole body. I do not rinse off my loofah; I squeeze the soap out of it to wash my face, then I place it back in its tray next to the bottle. The scent of the remaining soap acts like incense until my next shower. I was also pleasantly surprised to find that this body soap has a rich lather and cleans as well as advertised. I had forgotten the reason I bought the body soap until I used it.
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