Samuel Marek "Milo" Anstadt (10 July 1920 – 16 July 2011) was a Dutch Jewish writer and journalist.

Biography

Andstadt was born and lived in Lwów (

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, nowadays

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) until 1930. At the age of 10, Milo, his parents and sister Sera emigrated to the Netherlands. In the Netherlands, he completed

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but did not go to secondary school. When Anstadt was fourteen years old, he worked for the Transformatorfabriek Besra in

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, he often went to ANSKI a cultural club for mostly Jewish eastern European immigrants where you could assist at political and other lectures and all kind of performances, where he also received mentoring and was helped to become more spiritually developed. Later, he received a

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from the

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, specializing in criminology. In 1941, he married

Lydia Bleiberg Lydia ( Lydian: ‎𐤮𐤱𐤠𐤭𐤣𐤠, ''Śfarda''; Aramaic: ''Lydia''; el, Λυδία, ''Lȳdíā''; tr, Lidya) was an Iron Age kingdom of western Asia Minor located generally east of ancient Ionia in the modern western Turkish provin ...

, and they had a daughter Irka in March 1942. After a warning in the evening of 9 July 1942, they had to go immediately into hiding. Their daughter was taken afterwards to a foster family in

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by the Resistance. From 1945 to 1950, he was an editor of the magazine ''

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''. Next, he worked as a

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with the

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, and wrote the spoken parts of 1955 documentary programs for television such as '' In'', '' Televisierechtbank'', ''Spiegel der Kunsten'' (''Mirror of Arts'') and ' (''Occupation''). For the latter two, he received the 1960 Television Award of the

Prince Bernhard Foundation The Cultuurfonds was founded by Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands in London in 1940 during World War II in order to buy war material for the British and Dutch Governments. It continued after the war as Stichting Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds aimi ...

. In 1960, he was commissioned by Wereldvenster Publishing to write a book about Poland. It was published in 1962 under the title '' Polen, land, volk, cultuur''. As an employee of ''

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'', Anstadt wrote a large number of opinion articles. In 1994, he was invested as a Knight of the

Order of Orange-Nassau The Order of Orange-Nassau ( nl, Orde van Oranje-Nassau, links=no) is a civil and military Dutch order of chivalry founded on 4 April 1892 by the queen regent, Emma of the Netherlands. The order is a chivalric order open to "everyone who has ...

. He died in

and is buried at Zorgvlied cemetery.

Bibliography

Anstadt's works include: * ''Polen, land, volk, cultuur'' * ''Op zoek naar een mentaliteit'' * ''Met de rede der wanhoop'' * ''Kind in Polen'' * ''Polen en Joden'' * ''Jonge jaren'' * ''De verdachte oorboog'' * ''Servië en het westen'' * ''En de romans De opdracht'' * ''Is Nederland veranderd?'' His novels include: * ''Niets gaat voorbij'' * ''De wankele rechtsgang van Albert Kranenburg''

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Anstadt, Milo 1920 births 2011 deaths Dutch columnists Dutch journalists Dutch jurists 20th-century Dutch historians Dutch criminologists Dutch male dramatists and playwrights Dutch political writers Dutch bibliographers Dutch magazine editors Dutch television directors Dutch television producers Jewish Dutch writers Jewish social scientists Jewish historians Jewish dramatists and playwrights Polish emigrants to the Netherlands Knights of the Order of Orange-Nassau University of Amsterdam alumni 20th-century Dutch dramatists and playwrights Journalists from Amsterdam