Albert Boer
Albert Boer was a Dutch author who was known primarily as the author of Kamp Schoorl, a Dutch-language book about the concentration camp of the same name. https://www.conserve.nl/fonds/het-kamp-schoorl-347/
Boer was born in Beverwijk, Netherlands in 1935. He came to the United States in the mid-1950s after winning a Rotary Scholarship and studied at Morehouse College and Spelman College of Atlanta University. He worked in the civil rights movement including Settlement Houses. He was an accomplished sculptor in wood, clay and bronze; for example, he made the sculpture of Harriet Tubman in the Harriet Tubman House. He lived in two houseboats, one in Fort Point Channel and one in Schoorl, Nederlands. Boer moved back to the Netherlands in the mid-1980s and bought a pension which he named the Sneeuwgans.
He then wrote the book Kamp Schoorl. He also published an english-language book in 1966 which was a chronology of the United South End Settlements titled The Development of USES. The book covered the history of USES in the period of 1891–1966 and they sponsored him to write it. A copy of the book is located in United South End Settlement House's archives at Northeastern University and used as a resource for the bibliography for Library's overview. He was also interviewed by Ed Logue, the city planner for a historical and community organizer prospective of the South End community and the changes he saw happen in his work as a worker and later as a Program Director of the Lincoln House in 1976. He died on 3 October 2002 in Groet, Netherlands at his houseboat.