In 1995 the Dutch Australian Cultural Centre organised a 50 year liberation in the Dutch East Indies commemoration at their premises in the Abel Tasman Village (ATV) at Chester Hill.
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Several weeks later the DAW published a double page spread review of several commemorations around the country including the one at ATV.
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Two women were mentioned in the programme. Martje Schutte was playing the piano and Vera Harms-Rado gave a lecture.
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Vera, a s a young teenager, wrote her story about her time in Japanese captivity.
Eef ten Brummelaar, herself a survival of the Japanese concentration camps in her ‘Brummel’s Babbel’ in the DAW provided a review page of a performance of the “Shoe-Horn Sonata’ a play by John Misto at the ‘Ensemble Theatre’. Vera Harms-Rado was very much involved in the creation of this play.
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Paulus Breedveld
Below is the autobiography of Vera Rado.
Vera died in late 2020 and left some personal effects to the DACC. It also includes her funeral leaflet.