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About Jef Last
Jef Last scheidde van zijn vrouw Ida vanwege zijn situatie in de oorlogsjaren. Hij zat namelijk in het verzet bij De Vonk en de Duitsers zaten hem op de hielen. Hij wilde haar daarmee niet in de problemen brengen. In 1946 hertrouwde hij weer met haar maar had daarnaast ook veel kortstondige homo contacten en was vaak afwezig zoals hij ook enige tijd in Indonesie was.
Josephus Carel Franciscus (Jef) Last (2 May 1898 in The Hague – 15 February 1972 in Laren) was a Dutch poet, writer, translator and cosmopolitan.
Jef Last was a writer and socially compassionate man. He had a Catholic background. However, he was very young member of the SDAP and the "AJC". With these principles, he could not practice as an assistant manager of the Enka in Ede, and eventually he resigned.
He left the revisionist social democracy to become a member of Henk Sneevliet's Revolutionary Socialist Party. With his revolutionary friend André Gide, he traveled in the summer of 1936 to the Soviet Union. The pair was well received, but saw through the organized tribute and returned to the west disillusioned. Much later Last wrote a book about his friendship with Gide.
He last fought in the Spanish Civil War in the International Brigades, which was on the side of the Spanish Republic. As a result, he lost his Dutch citizenship because of military service for a foreign power. Shortly after the Second World War, his citizenship was returned.
From 1950 to 1953, he lived in Indonesia, particularly in Singaraja (Bali), where he worked as a teacher at a secondary school. He was friends with president Sukarno and Mohammad Hatta.
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- Social History - BWSA > biografie
- De Volkskrant 12-03-1993 > over Jef Last (zie media)
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- Archiefkaart Stadsarchief Amsterdam
- Jef Last, Bestaat er een raarder leven dan het mijne? > biografie door Rudi Wester; 2021 Prometheus Amsterdam
- Het Parool 16-02-1972 > overlijdensadvertentie
Jef Last's Timeline
1898 |
May 2, 1898
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Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
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1923 |
October 23, 1923
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Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
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1925 |
December 6, 1925
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Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland (Netherlands)
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1927 |
July 26, 1927
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Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland (Netherlands)
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1972 |
February 15, 1972
Age 73
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Laren, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
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