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Tag Archives: prisoner of war

2023 Commemorations of August 15, 1945 in the Netherlands

Featured, World War IIBy The Indo ProjectAugust 28, 2023Leave a comment

On August 15, 2023, the victims of the Second World War in the former Dutch East Indies were commemorated in over fifty places in the Netherlands. The war experiences and the large-scale displacement that followed are still affecting two million people in the Netherlands with an Indies family war story and in the Dutch society…

George R. Caron: Atomic bomb mushroom clouds over Hiroshima (left) and Nagasaki (right)

Atomic Bombings Marked End of WW2 in Asia

Stories, World War IIBy The Indo ProjectJuly 31, 20234 Comments

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…

It’s a Small World

Stories, World War IIBy The Indo ProjectJuly 10, 202311 Comments

by Jane Vogel Mantiri Introduction I met Sonja in October 2011, almost seven decades after Papa was captured by the Japanese, shackled, and forced to work the Death Railway in Siam (Thailand) as a POW (prisoner of war). Papa would endure almost four years of torture before he was released from hell. He never told…

My Indonesian Rattle

Stories, Trauma, World War IIBy The Indo ProjectJune 12, 20232 Comments

By Gerard Willem Charles Lemmens The Imperial War Museum in London asked me to write the following story. The Dutch East Indies Around my birth on April 24th, 1940, in the R.C. hospital of Surabaya, my parents bought this rattle at the silversmith—de Wolf—in honor of my birth. I (Gerard Willem Charles Lemmens) was the…

See Jane Run!

Family Story, History, StoriesBy The Indo ProjectFebruary 1, 202317 Comments

by Jane Vogel Mantiri War is hell. My parents survived two wars: World War II and the Indonesian National Revolution that followed. Although those wars ended, my parents’ trauma never did.   This story is dedicated to my parents. I was my parents’ only daughter. My father was a brave, strong, and loving man who lived…

The ‘Indisch Monument’ in The Hague, Netherlands

History, StoriesBy The Indo ProjectNovember 28, 2022Leave a comment

by Astrid Berg, author of Mixed Bood: Reconciling My Colonial Family’s History in the Dutch East Indies. In August while visiting The Hague and riding my bike, I came upon the Indisch Monument in de Scheveningse Bosjes (large park in The Hague) near Madurodam. I had been there many times before. This time I had…

The Indo Girl

Who is The Indo Girl?

Family Story, Indo Profile, StoriesBy The Indo ProjectAugust 10, 20226 Comments

by Benjamin Jacobs The Story Behind the Indo Girl Logo Before the war, my father was an art and engineering student. He was also in the Dutch army. My father was an artist at heart and was creative in everything he did. More importantly, he was a husband and father. Here’s his story and the…

The Disaster of the Poelau-Bras Ship

History, Stories, World War IIBy The Indo ProjectMay 18, 20224 Comments

“Who was in which lifeboat?” A mission by Peter Versteeg to find out which of the three remaining lifeboats his father traveled in — as one of 116 survivors of the sunken “Poelau Bras” — and who were in the other two lifeboats? www.poelau-bras.nl (To translate this website from Dutch to English: Go to Google…

Exploring Ancestors Through Travel and Writing

Books, Genealogy, StoriesBy The Indo ProjectApril 22, 20221 Comment

by Astrid Berg, PhD During childhood, I had little connection to my Indonesian roots. I rarely heard Maleis (Malay) or Javaans (Javanese) spoken. I only had a slight relationship to Indo/Indische customs and culture. Both my parents appeared European. My mother is Dutch, and the Indonesian influences were subtle in my Indo father. I was…

Indo Movie Highlight: The Past Ended on Mango Street

History, Movie, StoriesBy The Indo ProjectJanuary 25, 20225 Comments

A Search for the Truth Interview with Thomas Watson by Patricia Teunisse, Secretary of The Indo Project. Also published in Moesson International. On October 31, 2021, The Indo Project and Moesson attended the Netherlands premiere of The Past Ended on Mango Street. The documentary is the vision of Thomas Watson, who  narrates the film and…

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