Catherine Keyl discovers father’s war past | Stan Huygens Journal

Catherine Keyl ,, … Was my father a hero? I think so …”

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“As an adult, couldn’t you see that I was crying out for your love as a child?” In a new book TV celebrity and Telegraaf columnist Catherine Keyl writes about her Jewish father. His war experiences and a tense emotional life marked her: “Much in my life has been ruined because I always felt left behind.” As a child she could not understand him. That came later, it appears War Father. A memory.

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