Historical Record
Zacharias Jansen's life was documented by the many investigations on the subject before the Second World War. Many of the Middelburg archives were destroyed by a devastating bombardment on May 17, 1940, during the Nazi invasion of the Netherlands. If there had never been profound investigations, very little would be known of Jansen's life at all, since all files were lost in the fires following the bombardment.
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