by Karel Wagemans – first published in Dutch on January 20, 2025 Introduction: Remembering the Origins of Herdenking As the Indo community and others with family history in the Dutch East Indies commemorate the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II in the Pacific, it is worth remembering how the tradition of Herdenking—the…
NOTE: Updated by TIP on 4/14/2020 8:30 pm Do you love to sing? The Herdenking’s Choir needs you! This is a special opportunity to join the choir as they sing for the 75th anniversary of the end of World War 2 and the 30th anniversary of the “Comite Augustus 15, 1945”. The Herdenking is a…
The following article first published in August 2017 details the funding of a “Dutch Indo Meeting Place” in The Hague, the Netherlands. Funds were also set aside for the annual Herdenkingsdag Commemoration on August 15 and a virtual Dutch Indo monument consisting of war stories including the names of victims. The article mentions the Dutch…