Rose Van Thyn
Blog Posts
Rose and Louis' son, Nico Van Thyn, has written for years about his parents and family in his blog. Below are links to many of those blog posts.
On Rose and Family
- Coming to America ...
- What a trip
- Shreveport, 1956
- Dr. Rose
- Proud to be an American
- Crates, roaches, a sewing machine ... and a stoop
- A Rose for Centenary's rose garden
- Eli and Oma Rose: They share a grand day
- My mother appreciated Veterans' Day
- If it wasn't luck, what was the right word?
- My mother to a U.S. World War II veteran: "Thank you"
- One last glimpse of Abraham
- The infamous Block 10: An unpleasant memory
- Rose and her 'camp sisters'
- Rose wanted to live in the palace
- Mom's memories: Wearing the yellow star
- Sixty years in America: a day, a trip, to remember
- "I Found A Silver Lining"
- Rose, the Holocaust ... and poetry
A Series on Louis Van Thyn
- Dad's stories are unreal ... and too real
- No. 70726 was a permanent reminder
- Beaten, but never defeated
- The family: van Thijn became Van Thyn
- Nathan and Sara ... my Dad's parents
- In touch with my great-grandparents
- Growing up in Jewish Amsterdam
- The would-be diamond cutter
- Estella -- Dad's first love
- Transition camp, and then ... Auschwitz
- The gates of hell
- Living the nightmare in the camps
- Working in the mines
- The second camp: a plumber's helper
- The boxer Leen Sanders ... my Dad's hero
- Food was always an issue
- Beds and a band: Life in the camps
- Auschwitz had a whorehouse in it!
- The camp guards: Men without faces
- Testifying against a Nazi guard
- The hangings: a gruesome spectacle
- Free at last ... but then what?
- D-Day: the day of a lifetime
- Finding the way back ... a long way back
- A tour of eastern Europe ... a boat ride west
- Going home to Antwerp (and heartbreak)
- Going home to Amsterdam (more heartbreak)
- The fate of the family in Belgium
- Finding the survivors
- When Rose met Louis: Starting a new family
- Taking a job, and a tram ride, in Amsterdam
- For Dad, friendship to the end
- A return to Auschwitz
- End of a life, end of this story