Tag: KNIL
KNIL daughter Nona Salakory at the Indies commemoration in Baarn: ‘You can forgive and make up for injustice’
“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…
Descendants of KNIL soldiers write a book about the guerrilla on Timor in 1942: ‘They did not want to bend’
This first extensive Dutch publication about the KNIL guerrilla warfare on Timor in 1942 was compiled by the young historian Robbert van Leeuwen and the Verzet Timor 1942 project team,…
Descendants of KNIL soldiers write a book about the querrila on Timor in 1942: ‘They did not want to bow’
This first extensive Dutch publication about the guerrilla of the KNIL on Timor in 1942 has been compiled by the young historian Robbert van Leeuwen and the project team Verzet…