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Boekevat and a Candle for Andries KunzBy Ben KunzSome stories are written in blood, others in silence and a few are passed down through generations until someone dares to bring them home.Andries Kunz was a young South African Boer raised on the rugged plains of Elandsfontein, a farm in the Eastern Transvaal, that shaped the hearts of brothers and a sister and sowed the seeds of legacy. But love, pride, and doubt cast shadows on his life when the paternity of baby Louise born to Anna, his wife was questioned. In anguish and disillusionment, Andries left his homeland and fatefully signed a contr...
Boekevat and a Candle for Andries Kunz
By Ben Kunz
Some stories are written in blood, others in silence and a few are passed down through generations until someone dares to bring them home.
Andries Kunz was a young South African Boer raised on the rugged plains of Elandsfontein, a farm in the Eastern Transvaal, that shaped the hearts of brothers and a sister and sowed the seeds of legacy. But love, pride, and doubt cast shadows on his life when the paternity of baby Louise born to Anna, his wife was questioned. In anguish and disillusionment, Andries left his homeland and fatefully signed a contract with King George to fight in a war far from South Africa... a war that would claim his life on Italian soil. First he was MIA after Tobruk. Then the Red Cross found him as a POW in a camp north of Rome. He and three friends escaped from a train moving them north as the Allied forces moved towards Rome in 1943, but was killed by German soldiers. The Kunz famaly recieved a letter and a photograph of his grave.
Decades later, in 1996, Ben Kunz, son of Andries' brother Jan, discovers a faded photograph of the forgotten grave in Italy. Driven by longing and the need to heal a family wound never spoken of, Ben embarks on a journey across time and the Department of Defence in SA's archive not just to find Andries' final resting place, but to bring peace to a father haunted by the loss of a brother and the silence that followed.
With his wife Wilna, and his parents Jan and Hettie, Ben travels to Rome. At the foot of a new tombstone in the Commonwealth War Cemetry in Rome, beneath the Roman sun, a broken circle is finally made whole.
A deeply personal tale of war, love, betrayal, and reconciliation, Boekevat and a Candle for Andries Kunz is more than a historical novel it is a true South African family saga that spans nearly a century, reminding us that memory is sometimes a battlefield, and closure a quiet kind of victory, even in death.
By Ben Kunz
Some stories are written in blood, others in silence and a few are passed down through generations until someone dares to bring them home.
Andries Kunz was a young South African Boer raised on the rugged plains of Elandsfontein, a farm in the Eastern Transvaal, that shaped the hearts of brothers and a sister and sowed the seeds of legacy. But love, pride, and doubt cast shadows on his life when the paternity of baby Louise born to Anna, his wife was questioned. In anguish and disillusionment, Andries left his homeland and fatefully signed a contract with King George to fight in a war far from South Africa... a war that would claim his life on Italian soil. First he was MIA after Tobruk. Then the Red Cross found him as a POW in a camp north of Rome. He and three friends escaped from a train moving them north as the Allied forces moved towards Rome in 1943, but was killed by German soldiers. The Kunz famaly recieved a letter and a photograph of his grave.
Decades later, in 1996, Ben Kunz, son of Andries' brother Jan, discovers a faded photograph of the forgotten grave in Italy. Driven by longing and the need to heal a family wound never spoken of, Ben embarks on a journey across time and the Department of Defence in SA's archive not just to find Andries' final resting place, but to bring peace to a father haunted by the loss of a brother and the silence that followed.
With his wife Wilna, and his parents Jan and Hettie, Ben travels to Rome. At the foot of a new tombstone in the Commonwealth War Cemetry in Rome, beneath the Roman sun, a broken circle is finally made whole.
A deeply personal tale of war, love, betrayal, and reconciliation, Boekevat and a Candle for Andries Kunz is more than a historical novel it is a true South African family saga that spans nearly a century, reminding us that memory is sometimes a battlefield, and closure a quiet kind of victory, even in death.
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