Family

This picture was taken by Alysha

I was born 22 April 1942, so middle of the war. As I am Jewish and this was occupied Holland it is a miracle that there were people risking their lives to save me. After the war my parents " did not come back", as this was euphemistically called at the time. So the people saving me during the war became my foster parents. And I grew up as any normal child not then and not later really experiencing consequences of the war.

Graduated from high school in 1960 (or was it 61) went, no not to a conservatory, but to University to study Mathematics. I have been a math's teacher some years and then worked as a mathematician in research in Industry .
In my thirties I started trying to play the Traverso. Some twenty eight years ago I did the evening joiners education. Bought a lathe. And from one thing to another I found that flute making was a professional vocation for me.

 

We are quite a lot again, also the Polak familyand

I have five children, three children with their own families and one working in insurance industry, the other now in Vienna, building a new life.

This is Tamara my oldest daughter. She did a law degree and just changed jobs and now works at AKZO.

Further there is Pim, physiotherapist by training but now with a very posh MBA, one of those where one week study is in Hong Kong and one in Mexico. He is working in industry in different functions. Now director of a combined foundation comany with the aim of improving surgery.

Shoshana, a real barrister at a one of those law firms, here with her son David .

 

Our Alysha, a photographer by education but now enjoying working in insurance industry .

And last Tanja a master in sociology/anthropology, brilliantly (says her father and show her marks, who gets 10 out of 10 points for an exam at a Dutch University)!! After her masters she got a job at an NGO that she could do on the web and therefore could do her world trip. Then sort of got stuck in Bogota and after a slaves job at a school teaching English she has worked at several Universitities there and enjoyed it thoroughly. Alas then south american vice caught up with her so she returned to Vienna where she is in her grand mothers house building something new. Now she has a job as a teacher here in the Netherlands and is settled again. Happy not to be in south American crime. Not boring in any case.

But were they not nice together just a little while ago

 

Tamara, Pim and Shoshana are from my first marriage with Lies Olgers.

Now I am married to Monika the mother of

Alysha and Tanja. She is a garden designer, http://www.tuinontwerp.nu/

Tamara has three children:

Noah,thennow Daniel, thennow and Roos thenand now

 

but also Noah and Daniel and Roos long ago

 

Pim has two children with his former wife Renee, Floor then and now with creepy animals and Isabelle thennow? but also now Pim with both Floor and Isabelle

No comment!

Pim is now married with Marjolijn. Marjolijn has a son Maurits who is always in a good mood.

And the latest Polak, Guusje.

 

 

Shohana lives with Remco Snijders, they have a son David,

 

Is this fun? must be!

And the good life in the field behind our house

And yes, me. This looks like I am a real player (making music with Karin Elkerbout), but I am really a maker and nowhere near a real musician.

 

 

 

And of course our home (many more pictures here) with the workshop at the right.

 

Our living room.

 

And how a flutemaker repairs his windsurf board

And Bas,our Great Swiss Sennen dog, alas no longer after 12 years. However, this was a unique dog that we will not forget easily.

But life goes on, so here is Iwan

But he groooooows

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

---

 

 

 

 

日本語

main page

general

flutes
Renaissanc
prices
clips
böm2baroq
history
philosophy
contact
care
exhibitions
reactions
F1AID

technical

 

Hz-cents
tuning
fingering
workshop
carrying
pitch
dynamics
woods
links
reboring
resistance
key pads
sweet spot
temperature
each note
Stuck
Cork

originals

Beukers
Haka
Kirst
Kirst 415
Naust F
Wijne 1
Wijne 2
Palanca
Tassi
Naust B
400 Hz
Dutch
Ehrenfeld

private

Family
cv