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Migration history

Interview: The wanderings of Nies Lankamp

Different from most Dutch migrants, Nies Lankamp was not born in the Netherlands.  She was born in Teluk Bayur in North Eastern Borneo as Nies Landman.  Her father, Gerard Landman, worked there as machinist on the coal transport ships of the Koninklijke Pakketvaart Maatschappij (KPM).  Teluk Bayur is inland, connected Read more…

By DACC, 2 daysDecember 3, 2023 ago
Military and Political History

The end of WWII. Liberation of Borneo by Australian troops. Bersiap killings on Java.

The 15th day of August 1945 will go down in history as the day of the end of the Second World War. On that day, Japan capitulated and the President of the United States announced that the conflict in the Pacific was over. But there was no question of a Read more…

By DACC, 3 daysDecember 2, 2023 ago
Migration history

Interview: All in the family. Henk Hoonhout and Ali Geeraerts

Hendrikus (Henk) Hoonhout and Alida Johanna Maria Geeraerts (Ali) are brother and sister.  They both live in Prins Willem Alexander Village in Birkdale, Brisbane Queensland, albeit in separate accommodation.  Ali is a widow and lives in a low-care unit, she is 99.  Henk, who never married, lives in an independent Read more…

By DACC, 3 daysDecember 2, 2023 ago
Migration history

Interview: Hank and Bertie Halle – loving sports

Husband and wife, Hank and Bertie Halle were both born in 1933.  He in Deventer as Hendrik Halle, she in Zaandam as Egberta Westervaarder. Hank’s father was a well-known Dutch footballer and trainer, Jan Halle.  Jan and his brother, Leo, famous as the ‘Lion of Deventer’, both played for the Read more…

By DACC, 3 daysDecember 2, 2023 ago
Migration history

Interview: Wubbo Bijker – ship builder

Wubbo Edward Bijker, was born in Rotterdam, Netherlands, in April 1939.  His parents were Wiebe Bijker, born in Zwolle, and Nicolette Kempff who was born in Haarlem.  Grandfather Bijker was Frisian.  Father Wiebe Bijker was a mechanical engineer and during the years after WW2 he built bridges all over Netherlands, Read more…

By DACC, 3 daysDecember 2, 2023 ago
Migration history

Interview: Bill Hunt – Builder and bridge player

Bill Hunt is living in a low-care unit of Prins Willem Alexander Village (PWA) in Brisbane because he has severe vision limitations.  In spite of his English name, he was born in Assen (Drenthe) in 1934, named Willem Hoekstra, his father was Hans Hoekstra from Heerenveen, Friesland, and his mother Read more…

By DACC, 3 daysDecember 2, 2023 ago
Migration history

Interview: Hanny van der Mark -tough migration years

After having interviewed two men who live at my retirement village, I now interviewed a migrant woman.  Our village actually has more female than male residents, so it’s about time.  Hanny came to Australia in 1950, when she was 10 years young.  She was born in Bussum, where she grew Read more…

By DACC, 3 daysDecember 2, 2023 ago
Migration history

Interview: Steve Flierman – Property valuer

In my village, the Prince Willem Alexander Retirement Village (PAW), there’s plenty of migrants, mostly Dutch.  Some of them are here long enough to have been involved with the founding of the village.  I interviewed another one of our residents about his migrant experience.   Steve Flierman was born in Read more…

By DACC, 3 daysDecember 2, 2023 ago
Migration history

Interview: Henk Mollee – Hollandia Soccer Club – F.C. Lions

Australia is a land of immigrants.  I am an immigrant, and you, dear reader, are probably too. High levels of immigration in the years before 1891 resulted in 32% of the population listed as overseas-born in Australia’s first country-wide census in 1891. These numbers decreased substantially in the first half Read more…

By DACC, 3 daysDecember 2, 2023 ago
Military and Political History

Interview: Netherlands Honorary Consul for Queensland Marjon Wind

On June 16th 2021 I received news that the Ambassador of the Netherlands in Australia, H.E. Mrs. Marion Derckx, announced Ms. Marjon Wind to be the new Honorary Consul for Queensland.  Ms. Wind succeeds Dr. Frans Karel de Laat as the Honorary Consul for the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Read more…

By DACC, 3 daysDecember 1, 2023 ago

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