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With photo pages. Two Jewish boys, Jaap and Max van Praag, brothers from the Amsterdam Transvaalbuurt, whose father, mother and sister were murdered during the war. They themselves went into hiding successfully, had to keep quiet for a few years. But after the liberation they opened their mouths, and how! Max became the most famous singer in the Netherlands, figurehead of the VARA radio. Business talent Jaap led Ajax to the European football top in the sixties with Rinus Michels and Johan Cruijff. Gramophone records and humor largely determined their lives. Every day they inquired about each other's turnover by telephone. Every day they exchanged jokes and spread their cheerful charm around. Their motto was: "Not having bad luck is luck enough.
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