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Tag Archives: Burma-Thai Railway

Watch was given to Opa Bebelaar to commemorate his 1911 birth along with condolence letter from Queen Wilhelmina to author's Oma

Indo Book Highlight: Time

Family Story, Featured, NewsBy The Indo ProjectOctober 4, 20215 Comments

by David Bebelaar Finding a Box of Letters Searching for information about my grandparents led me to a box of letters they had written to each other. The correspondence documented their lives as a young couple and all of the experiences they had to navigate together. Their relocation from the Netherlands to the Dutch East…

SPECIAL CALL TO FORMER POWS WHO WORKED AT THE BURMA RAILWAY.

Blog, Witness to the War, World War IIBy Editor 1December 4, 201317 Comments

The new book ‘Welcomed by the Smell of Endive’ by Dutch journalist Griselda Molemans (due on March 21, 2014) highlights the true story of how the group of 380,000 displaced persons from the former Dutch East Indies (present-day Indonesia) were received in The Netherlands. Between 1950 and 1970, these Dutch citizens and loyalists were forced…

Opa: Dutch for Hero.

After Immigration, Blog, Family Story, Immigration, POW TRIBUTE, World War IIBy indoprojectFebruary 7, 20121 Comment

By Jason A. Dixon, grandson   Name: Richard E. Coert Born:   October 5, 1922, Dutch East Indies Died:   October 17, 2003, California, USA POW:   Burma-Siam Railway Richard E. Coert was born in 1922 in what is now Indonesia, where he grew up.  He dreamed of becoming a pilot in the Dutch air…

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