I am Dutch, born in Amsterdam in 1948. At least, that is what my
passport
says, and the facts certainly are correct. When people ask me
about my
name, that rhymes with 'Sarowski', I always tell them that my
parents were
Poles, that after the war found themselves in Amsterdam. Indeed, I
flaunted my
Polish background at school: Poles were loved in Holland, and dark
suggestions
about the suffering of my parents under the German occupation always
were
good for a bit of sympat...