Loe de Jong
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Louis ("Loe") de Jong (born 24 April 1914 in Amsterdam – died 15 March 2005 in Amsterdam) was a Dutch historian and journalist.
He wrote the standard work The Kingdom of the Netherlands during World War II, a book series of 26 volumes and over 15000 pages.
Loe de Jong was Jewish by birth. He lost the greater part of his family, including his parents and his twin brother during the Second World War.
He managed to survive the Holocaust because he was able to escape to England together with his wife when the Germans invaded the Netherlands.
