I produced a radio show dedicated to the songs & sounds that reminded me of my father. Wreck Dead Father 1185 [https://www.mixcloud.com/wreckthismess/wreck-dead-father-1185/]. This is the accompanying biographical sketch of my father that originally appeared in Paraphilia [which has disappeared into our collective amnesia]. It covers his growing up in the Netherlands, going through WW2, being plucked off the Amsterdam streets to work as a forced laborer in a Berlin armaments factory. His/our emigration to the US and a little about his search for a comfortable life that he only found a few years before his death from years of complications following a head on crash. Read also 'The Man Who Came Home' in the Amsterdam Quarterly: https://www.amsterdamquarterly.org/aq_issues/aq28-the-weather/bart-plantenga-the-man-who-came-home/. Listen while you read.
