From P.O.W. to C.E.O.
Name/Title
From P.O.W. to C.E.O.Entry/Object ID
2024.2.13Secondary Title
an after-war memoirDescription
A memoir written by Loet Velmans. By the end of World War II, he was a liberated prisoner of war who immigrated to the United States and became a successful public relations practitionerContext
Loet Velmans was only a teenager when he served in the Dutch army during World War II and started a newspaper while imprisoned in Singnapore. Shortly after, he was sent to Thailand as a P.O.W. slave laborer on the Burma railroad. After the war, he moved to the United States with his family and was hired by Hill and Knowlton, where he started his prolific career as a pioneer in the field of international public relations.Category
Memoir