The erased past of Piet (82): ‘Lost everything in the disaster, except my mother’

Piet de Vos is the only one of five children to survive the flood disaster of 1953. He also never sees his father and 37 relatives again. His mother tells him the horrifying truth by letter. Together with her he finds shelter in Almelo. He never returned. “What good is the past if it is erased?”