
English: 
The following video I made about a year ago
Before I grew out my beard and while I was still making videos in Hebrew
So for the international viewers- you can click the CC button at the bottom of the video
and watch it with English subtitles
Enjoy
This is Roermond, a city in the Netherlands
The story I’m about to tell took place here
but it’s climax was actually there--
inside this cemetery.
It involved this grave
and this one
This is the grave of Jacobus,
a colonel in the Dutch calvary
and a lower class man
That’s Josephina,
a higher class lady
of a rich family
Around the year 1840
Jacobus was stationed in Roermond
where he met Josephina
and the two fell in love
but that love was complicated

iw: 
את הסרטון הבא הכנתי בערך לפני שנה
עוד לפני שגידלתי זקן, ובזמן שעוד הייתי מכין סרטונים בעברית
אז לקהל בינלאומי- אתם יכולים ללחוץ על כפתור ה-CC  בתחתית הסרטון
ולצפות בו עם כתוביות באנגלית
תהנו
(לצופים בעברית- קיימות כתוביות על הסרטון עצמו)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

English: 
Not only because of social class
but mostly because of religion
Jacobus was Protestant
and Josephina Catholic
Both are indeed denominations of Christianity
but fundamentally different
And especially here in the NL, they underwent years of war and bloodshed
This love affair Jacobus and Josephina insisted to nurse
was extremely unorthodox
Society excluded them,
their families rejected them
But despite all that
Jacobs and Josephina got married
two years after they had met
But the intriguing story
isn't about the complication they experienced in their lives
but the ones they faced in their death
Protestants and Catholics are not buried together
And although Josephina and Jacobus, in their lives,
were able to remain together
in their death- couldn’t any longer
Because in Roermond’s cemetery
there’s a wall separating Catholics and Protestants
But then when you go to their grave
you see something incredible.

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English: 
Above the wall
their tombstones hold hands
As in life, so in death
Jacobus and Josephina did not let their differences set them apart.
