KNIL daughter Nona Salakory at the Indies commemoration in Baarn: ‘You can forgive and make up for injustice’

KNIL daughter Nona Salakory at the Indies commemoration in Baarn

“I lived like this for twenty years,” says Nona, who lived with her family successively in Amersfoort, Vught, Eijsden, Aardenburg and Wierden. “In single-walled wooden barracks, where sometimes the ice flowers stood on the windows. We were given clothes and furniture to furnish a living room and a bedroom. The kitchen was shared and we got hot water from the central washing facility. Our parents did the washing there It was a bit like a campsite.”

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