Eveline van Reedt Dortland interviewed by Edith van Loo in the Dutch war veterans in Australia oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 6102458
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Van Reedt Dortland, Eveline, 1936-, interviewee
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- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 2012 September 17
- 3 sound files (ca. 201 min.)
- Series:
- Dutch war veterans in Australia oral history project.
- Summary:
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Eveline van Reedt Dortland introduces herself and speaks of her parents, early life in Surabaya, Indonesia; the Japanese occupation, father evacuated to Australia but mother, herself and sister were trapped in Surabaya, interned for the duration of the war. She tells of the POW camp, lack of food and beriberi; changing camps; their treatment; liberation at the end of the war; reunited with father and returning to Netherlands; knowing nothing of Dutch life; training to be a nurse; meeting Wim Dortland again in Nijmegen; planning to migrate to Australia. Recollects the first impressions of Australia, living in Cronulla, first baby born in Australia, husband’s job, Reformed church, Dutch community, having a positive attitude to Australia and being a migrant; life in Australia; her family; return to the Netherlands after 20 years; remembers their wedding day in The Hague; views on migration.
- Notes:
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- Recorded on 17 September 2012 in Melbourne, Vic.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia;
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary (9 p.)
- Subject:
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- Van Reedt Dortland, Eveline, 1936- -- Interviews
- Dutch -- Australia -- Interviews
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Dutch
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese
- Indonesia -- History -- Japanese occupation, 1942-1945
- Australia -- Emigration and immigration
- Netherlands -- Emigration and immigration
- Other authors/contributors:
- Van Loo, Edith, 1967-, interviewer
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