Republished with permission. Chapter 15 of the book: A Touch of Dutch. For the full pdf of the book click here.
Introduction chapters of the book: Touch of Dutch
See also:
Bonegilla the largest migrant camp – 18.000 Dutch people passed through
Why didn’t Oma tell me about the war?
By Jayde Andrews Many people find it remarkable how my great grandmother survived two Japanese internment camps from 1941-1946 in the Dutch East, the Indonesian revolution and a famine on her way back to Holland Read more
