Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema
Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema was born in Surabaya, Indonesia on April 3rd, 1917 and is the War Hero. At the age of 90, Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Siebren Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema (April 1917 – September 26, 2007) was a Dutch writer who became a resistance fighter and RAF pilot during the Second World War.
He was adjudant (assistant) to Queen Wilhelmina at the end of the war.
He was awarded the honor of Knight 4th class of the Military William Order. Soldaat van Oranje (Soldier of Orange) a book that outlined his wartime experiences. He is perhaps best known for his book Soldaat van Oranje (Soldier of Orange), which chronicled his wartime experience.
His book was later turned into a film.
Early life
Roelfzema was born in Surabaya, Java, during colonial rule. He was from a patrician family, which is reflected in the Nederland's Patrology. He was the second child of Siebren Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema and his partner Cornelia Vreede. Ellen, his older sister, had been born two years ago. His father owned rubber and coffee plantations. The family returned to the Netherlands in the 1930s in order to ensure that the children were provided with a high education. They arrived in The Hague and then migrated to Wassenaar. He played soccer and was a member of the Hague Football Association.
In his youth, Roelfzema began writing. He was committed to becoming a writer from the age of 16 years old to the present. When living in Rapenburg, 56 across the canal from the Academiegebouw, he attended Leiden University and was a member of the Leidsch Student Corps Minerva society. Ernst de Jonge, the president of his student corps, served a soup tureen at a group of new students, striking Roelfema in the head and cutting his scalp. De Jonge had been an Olympic rower at Berlin's 1936 Summer Olympics, and was extremely popular among the students. Roelfzema's accidental wounding became the catalyst for their friendship.
Roelfzema spent time off to fly to the United States and fly by freighthopping and hitchhiking after finishing his first year of study. In 1939, he wrote Rendezvous in San Francisco, which became a best-selling Dutch book.