Jan was born in Malang, E. Java in 1939 and “repatriated” from Indonesia to the Netherlands at the age of 17. He emigrated to California in 1960. In 1996 he authored a book about the 1942 Japanese invasion of his homeland, the former Dutch East Indies. Jan has undergraduate degrees in Tropical Agriculture from a Dutch…
Migration from Netherlands East Indies Centre for Advanced Studies in Australia, Asia and the Pacific Curtin Research Fellow, Senior Lecturer, Perth, Australia
Inez Hollander (Ph.D.) has had a portfolio career teaching (UC Berkeley), translating (in particular for Silicon Valley clients like Google, LinkedIn and Netflix) and writing. Publishing both in the US and the Netherlands, her connection with the Dutch East Indies emerged only when she started looking into her family history. Although more than three generations…