By Bess Manson on STUFF…
Boyd Klap has so many remarkable stories up his tailored sleeve, it’s hard to know where to begin.
Perhaps with the one about the time he helped the Canadian Army locate Nazi headquarters on the day his Dutch city of Deventer? was liberated in World War II.
Maybe the one about the plumber he randomly met 40 years later in Queenstown who happened to be one of those Canadian soldiers.
The story about a narrow escape from the Nazis when he was delivering messages as a courier for the Dutch Resistance is ripping yarn.
With more than nine decades of a life well lived, the trough of experience is deep.
It’s a winding road getting to the heart of his work with New Zealand’s Anne Frank projects. Diversions to one gripping anecdote or another are worth the trip.
Klap has spent the past dozen years as one of the driving forces behind several projects revolving around the diary of Anne Frank – a touring exhibition, Te Haumihiata Mason’s translation of the diary into te reo M?ori, and now a memorial in a Wellington park.
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