He carefully takes hold of the old, red photo album. The cover is worn, the pages are yellowed, and at the front is a handwritten text from 1912, addressed to an unknown woman. For Wesley Coenen-Van Houtum (33), it is much more than an old book. It is the life's work of his grandfather Wim van Houtum from Liempde, which still holds the family together almost twenty years after his death. "He said to me: you have to finish it." Wim van Houtum onc…
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He carefully takes hold of the old, red photo album. The cover is worn, the pages are yellowed, and at the front is a handwritten text from 1912, addressed to an unknown woman. For Wesley Coenen-Van Houtum (33), it is much more than an old book. It is the life's work of his grandfather Wim van Houtum from Liempde, which still holds the family together almost twenty years after his death. "He said to me: you have to finish it." Wim van Houtum onc…