Lou Lichtveld
'''Lodewijk 'Lou' Lichtveld''' (7 November 1903 – 10 July 1996) was a Surinamese politician, playwright, poet and resistance fighter who wrote under the pseudonym "Albert Helman".He gained notability in 1923 when he published the poetry collection ''De glorende dag '' (The Dawning Day), a milestone in immigrant literature in the Netherlands. He followed it three years later with ''Zuid-Zuid-West'' (South-South-West).
In 1940, before the invasion of the Netherlands, he wrote the book ''Millioenen-leed'' ("Millions of Suffering") about the treatment of the Jews in Nazi Germany. During World War II, he was a member of the ''Grote Raad van de Illegaliteit'' ("Great Council of Illegality"),. After the war, he became part of the Emergency Parliament. In 1949, he returned to Suriname and became Minister of Education and later Minister of Health. Provided by Wikipedia
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1by Jerome Rousseau, John U. Wolff, S.O. Robson, H. Coerts, Harry A. Poeze, G. Adrian Horridge, Gerard Persoon, Albert Helman, Gert J. Oostindie, J.A. de Moor, Gerard A. Nagelkerke, ? Raja Ali Haji Ibn Ahmad, R.G. Tol, H.M.J. Maier, Tibor Bodrogi, S. Kooijman, R.Z. Leirissa, Gerrit J. Knaap, Sandra Hira, Saskia Keller, W.R. Smyses, Huynh Kim Khánh, H.D. Kubitschek, M. Hekker, Emile Henssen, P. van Hees, A. Milner, Renée Hagesteijn, C. Guillot, Th. van den End, Ross H. Cordy, Henri J.M. Claessen, Harmut K. Hildebrand, T.B. Simatupang, Jan Bank, H. Steinhauer, Richard McGinn, Heather Sutherland, Yeo Kim Wah, Rudolf van Zantwijk, Jerome A. OffnerGet full text
Published 1984-04-01
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