Waldemar Nods, better known as Sonny Boy is Wednesday his hometown Hilversum deceased. That his family Saturday. Annejet van der Zijl wrote in a 2004 bestseller about the life of “Waldy” and his parents. That book was made into a film in 2011 with Sergio Hasselbaink and Ricky Koole starring
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The actors from Sonny Boy Photo: Reuters
Nods was born in The Hague in 1929. His father, a Surinamese student also named Waldemar, had a relationship with the Dutch Rika van der Lans. She was seventeen years older than he and already married. The two gave shelter to Jews in hiding and were arrested by the Germans in 1944 and murdered. Rika wife died in Ravensbrück concentration camp. His father was shot on the run by the SS
About the Surinamese-Dutch couple Waldemar and Rika Van der Zijl said in an interview. “What special that people who own the pariahs by their love of their social environment had become, it still could still muster to help others. “” Sonny Boy “grew up in a foster home and worked as a journalist for Het Parool and a timber company in Suriname. He later returned to the Netherlands
According Querido Nods said in one of his last interviews:. “The book gave me back my parents, the film my whole family.” Sonny Boy of the book have been sold in the past decade, 650,000 copies of the same film by Maria Peters then drew over half a million visitors.
Waldemar Nods was 85 years. He will be cremated Monday
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