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Greetings from Ambon | The crossing home

In Eigen Woorden travels to Ambon. Discover how photographs of the first generation of Moluccans and the ULU KORA monument come together.

Commemoration and monuments Greetings from Moluccan community Nieuws

24 Jun 2026 Betty Titawano Greetings from

In the hands of the community

Director Henry Timisela shares a personal look back and ahead at years of growth, collaboration and preparation for the significant commemorative year 2026.

Collaboration Commemoration and monuments Moluccan community Nieuws

25 Nov 2025 Henry Timisela Interviews

Greetings from Middelburg: motorbikes for the Moluccas

Every year on 12 April an enormous procession of motorbikes roars through the Netherlands: the Peringatan Ride Out, a motorcycle tour in memory of mr. dr. Chris Soumokil, former president of the Republic of the South Moluccas (RMS). Semmarti Lumalessil rode along for the third time this year and explains why this day means so much to him and to many others.

Commemoration and monuments Moluccan community Nieuws

27 Apr 2025 Redactie Greetings from

Greetings from Den Helder: a tribute to Moluccan maritime history

On 21 March 2024 a remarkable monument honouring the history of the Moluccan navy personnel was unveiled in Den Helder. Rob Picauly, one of the initiators, tells us more about the road to the unveiling of the monument.

Commemoration and monuments Moluccan history Nieuws

29 May 2024 Redactie Greetings from

Freedom in perspective

The Indisch Herinneringscentrum and Museum Maluku invite you to commemorate together on Wednesday 16 August 2023, with a unique and varied programme that gives a voice to diverse perspectives and experiences.

Commemoration and monuments Nieuws Oral history

26 Jun 2023 Redactie News

11 June 1977 – De Punt

Today Museum Maluku commemorates the events of 11 June 1977 by showing a number of objects from its own museum collection and two objects currently on display at fellow museums.

Collection and archive Commemoration and monuments Nieuws

10 Jun 2023 Huib Akihary Collection

We are here because you were there

Director Henry Timisela shares his experience of the conversation with Prime Minister Mark Rutte and State Secretary for Health, Welfare and Sport Maarten van Ooijen at the Catshuis on 31 August 2022.

Commemoration and monuments Nieuws

5 Sept 2022 Henry Timisela Greetings from

To the table!

In this column, director Henry Timisela shares the thoughts that occupied him during his holiday: Maju Mundur, the Prime Minister's invitation and 2021 as a commemorative year.

Commemoration and monuments Nieuws

29 Aug 2022 Seraya Tuasuun Greetings from

Founding of the ‘Van Ver Gekomen’ committee for an annual commemoration at the national Moluccan monument from 2022

The Landelijk Moluks Monument and the Moluks Historisch Museum are jointly setting up a commemoration committee to organise an annual commemoration at the Lloydkade in Rotterdam.

Commemoration and monuments Moluccan history Nieuws

9 Sept 2021 Redactie News

BETADISINI X National Moluccan Monument✨

At the place where the first transport ship arrived, at the Lloydkade in Rotterdam, there is to this day nothing to show that a historic event took place there. The national monument will be a tribute to this 1st generation of Moluccans and their families and an acknowledgement of the shared past.

Arrival in the Netherlands Commemoration and monuments Moluccan community Nieuws

23 Jun 2021 Redactie Interviews

A forgotten history of 70 years on the way home? Coen Verbraak on ‘De Molukkers’

Coen Verbraak's documentary about Moluccans in the Netherlands, examined critically by Fridus Steijlen.

Commemoration and monuments Moluccan history Nieuws Slavery and colonialism

23 Jun 2021 admin Interviews

Follow-up: first donations by municipalities for a Moluccan monument in Rotterdam

Museum Maluku and the Landelijk Moluks Monument foundation are asking some 100 mayors to make a financial contribution to a national Moluccan monument at the Lloydkade in Rotterdam.

Commemoration and monuments Nieuws

3 May 2021 Redactie News

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