563 children on the Skaubryn The Skaubryn had left Surabaya on 14 April. On board were 1,198 Moluccans, among them 9 Moluccan navy men and 563 children. Arrival in the Netherlands News Residential camps
Chris Tamaela and Glenn Fredly, two Moluccan icons have passed away In April the Moluccas lost two icons in the field of Moluccan heritage. Glenn Fredly and Chris Tamaela. A column about bridge builders. Language and heritage Music and performance News
English cooks on the New Australia On 29 April 1951 the 5th transport carrying Moluccan ex-KNIL soldiers and their families arrived in the port of Amsterdam. Arrival in the Netherlands KNIL Moluccan history News
Uncle Eli came on the Castelbianco The Castelbianco had left Tanjung Priok, the port of Jakarta, on 27 March. On board was nine-year-old Eliza Andarias Teterissa. Arrival in the Netherlands News
From Roma to Doulos On 8 April 1951 the third transport carrying Moluccan ex-KNIL soldiers and their families arrived in Rotterdam. Arrival in the Netherlands KNIL Moluccan history News
Arrival of Moluccans in the Netherlands Moluccans arrived in the Netherlands on 21 March 1951, exactly 69 years ago today. Eleven more voyages were to follow. Arrival in the Netherlands KNIL Moluccan history News
Observations in Ambon Fridus Steijlen writes a monthly column. This month, his observations in Ambon. Moluccan history News
Indo salon with a Moluccan slant in Zeeland Indo or Moluccan roots? Come to the Indo salon in Vlissingen on 1 December. Events Moluccan community Moluccan culture
Willy Nanlohy vs JP Coen This column appeared in the MHM newsletter of June 2015. In May the biography ‘Jan Pieterszoon Coen, 1587-1629 Koopman-Koning in Azië’ by the historian Jur van Goor was published. I have not read the book yet, but according to an interview in the newspaper Trouw of 23 May, the historian revises the bad reputation of the VOC commander. […] Column Oral history Slavery and colonialism