1955-2003
Her father and his brother fought together in the Second World War on the Eastern Front on the side of the Germans against the Soviet Union. The brother has never been retrieved, but her father has, though mutilated. Her brother, Hans van Themsche's father, was a founding member of the Vlaams Blok. She now lives in Harelbeke.
Van Themsche attended higher education, specializing in teaching. For seven years she had been working as a teacher, taking care of her family and five children, before she decided to go into politics: "Now the children are older, I feel freer to focus on national politics," she said.
She is the aunt of Hans Van Themsche, who has been convicted of racist murders, which he committed in the city of Antwerp in the spring of 2006. His brother, the father of his nephew Hans Van Themsche, was a founding member of the Vlaams Blok party. (identical to the assumed above link by this name)
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