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In the 1960s, Balkema decided to end his career as a publisher. During a visit to his family in the
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His son started a technical and scientific publisher in
Rotterdam, naming it A A Balkema Publishers after his father. This imprint is now part of the Taylor & Francis Group as CRC Press / Balkema.
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in 2005, a hidden compartment was uncovered containing an archive of wartime documents, including manuscripts and correspondence. The compartment may also have served as a hiding place for (Jewish)
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novel, evoking much criticism and controversy when it was published in 1958. Balkema's status was definitely established when he was asked to handle the official publication of the
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specialist books which had often been refused by the more established publishing houses. These included such works as the
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