![]() ![]() Partly written down and partly conveyed by word of mouth, they were then translated into English and set into a larger historical context. Ron crossed the Atlantic almost every year to record these memoirs. In 1974, Ron met Jeanne van Diejen again in the Netherlands and persuaded this gifted raconteur to publish her memoirs. In 1972, he married Mireille Desjarlais from Montreal, a social worker by training, now a full-time writer. In 1966 he became a registered professional engineer, and in 1968 earned an MBA from the University of Toronto. ![]() In 1964 he returned to Canada, and made Toronto his home. Losing his job after the Canadian Government cancelled the development of the Avro CF-105 'Arrow', he left for Chicago, where he worked on industrial and aerospace projects. The family stayed there so the children could pursue their education in a secure environment.Īfter an engineer-in-training stage in the Netherlands and Sweden, he immigrated to Canada in 1953. ![]() Three and a half years later Australian troops liberated him, and the reunited family left for the Netherlands to recover. There he met Jeanne-Marie van Diejen-Roemen, the heroine of this book. In 1942, the Japanese invaded the Netherlands East Indies and interned the family his father and older brother in Pare-Pare Ron, his mother and younger brother at Malino, and later at Kampili. Ron Heynneman was born in Surabaya (Java), and raised in Makassar (Celebes, now Sulawesi). ![]()
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