Childhood friends reunite after 70 years.
Willem Nijholt’s childhood, like Ilse Evelijn Veere Smit’s, was cut short when the Japanese invaded his homeland, the DutchEast Indies. Like Ilse, he survived the war years in a concentration camp and the revolution that came after. Like Ilse, he repatriated to the Netherlands and built a new life. But Willem never forgot his childhood friend, the…