The military service records of Willy Erkelens provide a fascinating insight into the international wartime and postwar networks that connected the Netherlands East Indies (NEI), Australia, the United States and Indonesia during and after the Read more
Between the Netherlands and Australia The end of Dutch colonial rule in Indonesia led to the large-scale displacement of people connected to the former Netherlands East Indies (NEI). Between 1945 and the early 1960s, around Read more
Peter Reef recently self-published his memoir The Road from Wagga Wagga: Recollections of a Migrant Son (2026). Peter’s parents migrated from the Netherlands to Australia an astonishing three times between 1951 and 1965, and the Read more