Peter Jan Bogaert (b. 1970) is a freelance journalist.

He published at De Morgen/Zeno and has already been nominated three times for a Belfius press prize. He now mainly writes portrait interviews for www.sociaal.net. Earlier, with the support of the Pascal Decroos Fund, he made a penetrating report on a Fleming who fought with the Germans on the Russian Eastern Front during World War II.

Peter Jan Bogaert

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Peter-Jan Bogaert
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Journalist
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Portretten, Vlaanderen
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In search of traces of liberal funerary heritage in Flanders

  • Culture
  • Religion

BRUSSELS - Unknown is unloved, especially when it comes to liberal funerary heritage. Gravestones of freethinkers and other "sinners" have been neglected, forgotten or simply disappeared. And yet, things can be different. Three stories about "dog corners," the neglected memorial of the co-founder of Het Laatste Nieuws and columbaria gnawed by concrete rot illustrate the issue.