Republished with permission. Chapter 21 of the book: A Touch of Dutch. For the full pdf of the book click here. Families Rietveld, Rijnders
When Dick was nineteen, he was seized by the German authorities and transported to Germany. According to the account he later gave to Glenda Korporaal, he was initially taken to the Dachau concentration camp. He Read more
Hendrik Johan “Harry” Burgers lived a life shaped by war, displacement and migration. He served as a radio operator and air gunner during the Japanese invasion of the Netherlands East Indies, survived a forced landing Read more
The story of the Burgers family brings together several important chapters in the shared history of Indonesia, the Netherlands and Australia: the Boven Digul political prisoners’ camp in Dutch New Guinea, the Japanese invasion of Read more