The 31st Annual Holland Festival in Long Beach is scheduled to be held on September 5th, 2021. Due to the pandemic the festivals usually held during Memorial Day Weekend in May of last year and this year had to be canceled. With more events coming back as California reopens, the United Netherlands Organizations, have started…
Join this fun Indo group for lunch. Select from a variety of dishes and meet up with your friends. Save the dates: 2022 Indo luncheons LAST Tuesday of each month – noon-3pm (latest) ASIA SEAFOOD BUFFET 39825 Alta Murrieta Drive Murrieta, CA 92563 8/30, 9/27, 10/25, 11/29, & 12/27. We started again!
Want to learn (more) about WWII in the Dutch East Indies, the Bersiap Period and the Independence War? Watch the 40-minute documentary by Simone Berger & Armando Ello with English subtitles. Meet the Filmmakers: Live Q&A ONLINE on December 3, 2023 11am PST Register and/or send in your questions here An Exceptional Resource The Indo…
by Jamie Stern We are celebrating The Indo Project’s fourteenth anniversary! Fourteen years ago, on October 31st, we officially became known as The Indo Project. If you’d like to “treat” The Indo Project with a donation, please click here. The Indo Project is a small but mighty movement fueled by passionate volunteers and dedicated supporters…
by Inge Dümpel Since time, immemorial people have recorded images and memories with the pen and, taking it one step further, described the thoughts and feelings of their characters. I am going to tell you about someone who is Indisch in heart and soul and wants to capture and pass on this being Indisch as…
by The Indo Project Indos are thriving worldwide. Sometimes, however, Indos in California may not feel that sense of communal belonging or historical presence, and yet we truly are an authentic community. To this point, Dutch freelance journalist Inge Oosterhoff, has published a wonderful new long form article in the Dutch newspaper, De Groene Amsterdammer,…
by Ingrid Dümpel Emmy Verhoeff was born on December 6, 1939 in the beautiful mountain town of Malang, East Java. She experienced the entire war period in the Dutch East Indies. Shortly after the end of the war, in 1946, she lost her father. He worked for the police and was on patrol. The circumstances…
by Jamie Stern Happy National Grandparents Day! – Sunday, September 10th, 2023 In the Indo community, many of us share such reverence for our grandparents. We have dynamic stories about Oma and Opa. We know about their bravery and their incredible efforts to create safety and opportunities for their children and future grandchildren. We remember…
De Geest Overwint The Indo Project was honored to host its first annual Commemoration and Liberation Ball on Saturday, August 12, 2023, in Buena Park, California. This important event is about our shared heritage and a tribute to generations that came before us. The event’s theme was “De Geest Overwint” which in Dutch translates to…
By Priscilla Kluge McMullen August 6 & 9, 1945 – Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki While the world mourns and modern historians might accentuate the horrific deaths and devastation caused by these two atomic bombs dropped on the Japanese people over seventy years ago, we should not forget that the ultimate effect of these…