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Indonesia

Part of the permanent exhibition (2005-2022)

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A house in the the pre-war Dutch East Indies

The pre-war Dutch East Indies

Support through relief actions.

Preparing for war

The Japanese conquest.

The Japanese conquest

Men standing in line.

Resistance

Women sitting on the floor, laundry is hanging from a clothes line.

The resistance taken out

Japanese propaganda.

Japanisation and propaganda

Two very skinny men standing inside a fence.

Life in the camps

Three extremely thin young men.

Life outside the camps

Kamp Soemobito

Liberation and Bersiap/Berdaulat

‘Restore calm and order’

'Police actions' and the transfer of sovereignty

Han Sie Dhian Ho

To the Netherlands