France
My name is Jan Cornelis de Mik,
I was born in Rotterdam in 1951.
I have been working closely with Peter Zabel for some time now, as it has turned out that our research interests are parallel.
I am primarily looking for missing soldiers of all nationalities who disappeared during the First and Second World Wars. After finding a soldier, I search for their families to bring them the good news.
Most of my research concerns soldiers whose identification tags were found on the old battlefields of the First World War, near Verdun.
Two of my friends, Maarten Otte and Marc Calluy, who live in the villages of Nantillois and Montfaucon, regularly find identification plates in fields and forests. They send me a clear image of these plates, and I begin a search.
For example, I have already (successfully) searched for German, French, Belgian, and American soldiers.
I also found traces of Dutch forced laborers and their families.
The reason for my research is that I am trying to transform the sorrow of the past into a little joy in the present.
Here are the results:
- Kramer René, *26 Décembre 1920 – +19 Mars 1994
- Prehm Charles Victor, *1918 au Blanc-Mesnil, France, +21-04-1945 à Ruit (Ostfildern) Allemagne
Les prisonniers de guerre français à Kemnat (près de Stuttgart)
Une seule histoire en deux langues
www.klaus-illi.de/history/les-prisonniers-de-guerre-francais-a-kemnat/ ↗️
en français
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French prisoners of war in Kemnat (near Stuttgart)
It is a single story in two languages.
