About the Author
Meyer Sluyser was born in Amsterdam on September 9, 1901, the son of Sara and Moses, a diamond cutter. His was a socialist family that lived in a poor section of town. Yet with only a few years of formal schooling, Sluyser was to become a nationally known journalist and author.
When he was just 13 years old, Sluyser joined a social democratic youth organization where the passion for equal opportunities for all was firmly instilled in him. By 1919, he was authoring brochures that lashed out against Communism and urged other young people into social action. Ten years later, Sluyser was the editor of a daily newspaper that kept close tabs on political developments in the Netherlands and throughout Europe.
By the time the Nazis invaded Holland in 1940, Sluyser was a marked man. As a Gestapo squad was being dispatched to his house to arrest and no doubt kill him, he and wife and two children escaped. They all survived a treacherous two-day trip to England where Sluyser was made a member of Dutch Queen Wilhelmina's advisory committee during her period of exile in London. He personally set up and ran a secret radio station that transmitted broadcasts to Holland to aid the resistance fighters there. He was with the Allied Forces as a war correspondent when they landed on the continent in 1944.
Sluyser, who died on January 26, 1973, is survived by his son Mels and his daughter Marijke.
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