Memoirs of Harm and Dina and their children
Hardcover book edited, produced and published by Henry de Jong (eldest grandson).
Reproduced here in PDF form.
Also available in ePub format for viewing and downloading.
Venturing into the 21st Century
My grandparents lived their entire lives in the twentieth century. This was a time of extraordinary change, but pretty much without internet. Now we’re racing headlong into another world again, and I hope that this account will endure along side of and within our new reality.
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