{"id":25954,"date":"2025-01-24T11:03:23","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T10:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sovjet-ereveld.nl\/adoptanten\/part-12-jan-piek-from-utrecht\/"},"modified":"2025-02-14T09:48:08","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T08:48:08","slug":"part-12-jan-piek-from-utrecht","status":"publish","type":"adoptanten","link":"https:\/\/sovjet-ereveld.nl\/en\/adoptanten\/part-12-jan-piek-from-utrecht\/","title":{"rendered":"Part 12: Jan Piek from Utrecht"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"25954\" class=\"elementor elementor-25954 elementor-24909\" data-elementor-post-type=\"adoptanten\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-034cfcf e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"034cfcf\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8ef63fc elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"8ef63fc\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figcaption><em>Photo and text Jeroen Hendriks<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Until his retirement Jan was head of the mail room at Cap Gemini. He adopted a grave in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was born just after the war, in 1946. But I heard a lot from my parents and elder brother who went through it. I watch everything about the Second World War that I can. And so years ago I saw a documentary about the Soviet Military Cemetery.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t have a thing for the Soviet Union or Russia per se, but this documentary \u2013 in which Remco Reiding talked about tracing relatives and grave visits \u2013 made a big impression. What happened to the Jews is awful, but I did not know that millions of Russians had died also. Now they weren\u2019t exactly blue-eyed boys, but indirectly they too died for our freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One thing led to another with Jan. \u201cI began to immerse myself in the topic, visited meetings, adopted a grave and became a volunteer.<\/p>\n<p>With the aid of my wife I regularly sell stuff for the Soviet Military Cemetery Foundation (and another good cause) at jumble sales, at adopters\u2019 days and to societies. I split the takings nicely down the middle. Each foundation received around 750 euros in the past year. Unfortunately I haven\u2019t been able to do much this year due to the corona restrictions. But as soon as they are lifted I\u2019m back in the saddle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jan is very resourceful and remains a welcome guest at meetings of the foundation. \u201cPlacing and removing flowers at commemorations, setting candles on the evening of lights\u2026 there\u2019s enough left to be done. Not much is known about the grave I have adopted but I\u2019m hoping that some day relevant information will come to light.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>In this section, donors of the Soviet War Cemetery Foundation will have their say. They speak in a personal capacity, not on behalf of the Soviet War Cemetery Foundation. 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