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Stories : Family and Personal Stories

Vandersteen Family History Written by Johanna Wagenaar (nee, van der Steen). Johanna (Hannie) tells of the family’s sea journey from The Netherlands to Fremantle Western Australia on board the ‘Groote Beer’ in 1951, their reception by members of the Free Read more

By daaag, 10 yearsApril 8, 2016 ago
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Anton Roodhuyzen: Life as a child in a POW camp

Anton Roodhuyzen: Memories of life as a child in a Japanese POW Camp in the former Netherlands East Indies My full name is Antonie Roodhuyzen, a male of European Dutch descent, born 1st December 1936 in the city of Malang, Read more

By daaag, 10 yearsApril 8, 2016 ago
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Adriaan and Johanna Rutte

Adriaan and Johanna Rutte Golden Memories of their 50th Wedding Anniversary at Stirling in the Adelaide Hills, South Australia In June 1991, when Adriaan and Johanna Rutte had been married 50 years, a family of no less than seventy members, Read more

By daaag, 10 yearsApril 8, 2016 ago
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Stories: Migration

The Butlers of Wickepin Records show Dutch were on the first fleet, that the Swan Colony had a Dutch consul as early as 1879 and that Dutch made a living on the land in Queensland in the early part of Read more

By daaag, 10 yearsApril 7, 2016 ago
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Henriette Thomas (nee Kuneman): Life in Java, internment in war, evacuation to Singapore and Australia

Life in Java, internment in war, and evacuation to Singapore and Australia 1900–1953 Section 1: Life in Java in the early 20th century Section 2: The clouds of war, 1939–­1942 Section 3: Internment in Java: Kwarassan, Banjoe Biroe X and Read more

By daaag, 10 yearsApril 7, 2016 ago
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Wilhelmina De Brey

Wilhelmina De Brey These pieces are in memory of those I failed to help survive.  I had hoped to save their lives. Through the betrayal of another person, to the secret police, the Kempeitai, our house was invaded. I had received a Read more

By daaag, 10 yearsApril 7, 2016 ago
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Dirk, Kitty and Arnold Drok: Internment, resilience and survival

Netherlands East Indies (1939 – 1946) Internment, resilience and survival: The story of Dirk Drok who helped to uncover the Batavia and a key contributor to Voyage to Disaster, and his wife, well-known painter and ceramicist, Kitty Drok Why might Read more

By daaag, 10 yearsApril 7, 2016 ago
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John (Jan) Rikkers

John (Jan) Rikkers John (Jan) Rikkers was born on 5 February 1925 in den Haag, the youngest child of Jan Rikkers and Marie van der Wansem (official papers in later years state his date of birth as 1921, but according Read more

By daaag, 10 yearsApril 7, 2016 ago
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Voyage of the MS Abbekerk

The Dutch Contribution to the Defence of Australia in World War II THE DUTCH CONTRIBUTION TO THE DEFENCE OF AUSTRALIA IN WORLD WAR TWO   Since November 2007 a plaque on the Pathway of Honor in Adelaide, South Australia, recognises Read more

By daaag, 10 yearsApril 7, 2016 ago
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Klaas Woldring: academic, political activist & supporter of the Dutch community

Klaas Woldring Klaas Woldring’s life as an academic, political activist, and notable supporter of the Dutch community in Australia, has taken him The Netherlands to South Africa, Northern Rhodesia, Norway, Spain, Germany, Malta and the Solomon Islands. An interesting life! Read more

By daaag, 10 yearsApril 7, 2016 ago
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