Slovenians in the Netherlands
German passport
German passport belonging to Marjanka Šalej (Maastricht 30 May 1964).
Marjanka Šalej was fifteen when she came to the Netherlands by train from Yugoslavia in 1958. In order to be able to settle in the Netherlands, her mother married Josef Dušak, a Slovenian farmer and resistance hero who had lived in the woods of Schinveld since the early 1930s. The marriage didn't last long after which the fatherless refugee family moved on. They were taken in and helped by the Slovenian association and eventually found a place to live in Brunssum. Marjanka Šalej had a German passport, probably because her mother had applied for asylum in Germany after the war which was how she had acquired German nationality. Marjanka finally married a Dutch citizen in 1965 and received Dutch nationality. She died in Brunssum in 1997.
Marjanka Šalej was fifteen when she came to the Netherlands by train from Yugoslavia in 1958. In order to be able to settle in the Netherlands, her mother married Josef Dušak, a Slovenian farmer and resistance hero who had lived in the woods of Schinveld since the early 1930s. The marriage didn't last long after which the fatherless refugee family moved on. They were taken in and helped by the Slovenian association and eventually found a place to live in Brunssum. Marjanka Šalej had a German passport, probably because her mother had applied for asylum in Germany after the war which was how she had acquired German nationality. Marjanka finally married a Dutch citizen in 1965 and received Dutch nationality. She died in Brunssum in 1997.
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Mulders 01