Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or. .Jan Yoors was the son of a Flemish stained glass artist

Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. Jan Yoors was the son of a Flemish stained glass artist. At a young age he ran away with a troupe of Gypsies (more properly, the Rom) who were camping in his Belgian home town. Yoor's parents amazingly accepted his new double life, as Yoors lived on and off with the Rom for many years. His life with his Rom family is covered in his first book "The Gypsies. which is another must-read.

Crossing book During World War II, Yoors worked with the Allies to help the Gypsies who were being systematically exterminated.

During World War II, Yoors worked with the Allies to help the Gypsies who were being systematically exterminated. He was captured twice and imprisoned until the end of the war. In 1950 Yoors settled in New York City, where Jan Yoors was born to a cultured, liberal family of artists, but at the age of twelve he ran off with a Gypsy tribe and lived with the kumpania on and off for the next ten years.

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The gallery will organize two additional exhibitions ^ Yoors, Jan (1971). Crossing: A Journal of Survival and Resistance in World War II. New York: Simon & Schuster. Falino, Jeannine (2011).

The gallery will organize two additional exhibitions. Wandering the World City: Jan Yoors' New York Photographs, 1960s" is presented at Columbia University.

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Are you sure you want to remove Crossing: a journal of survival and resistance in World War II. from your list? Crossing: a journal of survival and resistance in World War II. by Jan Yoors. Published 1972 by Weidenfeld and Nicolson in London. Stormy Sky (1976) is hung at the 2011 "Armory Show" at the ReGeneration Furniture lounge "Couleurs shock", a solo-exhibition of tapestries is presented by Galerie Chevalier, Paris. New York: Abrams in association with Museum of Arts and Design.

Resistance movements during World War II occurred in every occupied country by a variety of means, ranging from non-cooperation to propaganda to hiding crashed pilots and even to outright warfare and the recapturing of towns. In many countries, resistance movements were sometimes also referred to as The Underground.

Yoors, Jan, Crossing: A Journal of Survival and Resistance in World War II. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1971. Prospect Heights, Illinois: Waveland Press reissued 1988. Crossing is a unique inside view of a young man’s coming of age in the horror and violence of Nazi-Oppupied Europe

034180) Yoors, Jan. Crossing. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1971.

034180) Yoors, Jan. Fine in Fine DJ. A journal of survival and resistance in World War II. The author tells of the terrors of Nazi-occupied Europe and how the Gestapo hunted down his Gypsy 'family' and friends ISBN: 0671209884 (Romanies, Nazi Persecution).

In New York, Yoors befriended numerous figures in the art and design worlds.

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