Nationaal Indisch Monument - Den Haag, NL - Remembering FEPOW on Waymarking.com

About the location:

Next to the lake in the Scheveningse Bosjes park, you will find the Nationaal Indisch Monument. There are several benches where you can sit and remember the fallen.

About the monument:
"A reminder of the war that the Netherlands waged against Japan from 1941 to 1945 in the former Dutch East Indies.
A memory of at least four groups of victims: soldiers, women and children from the camps, the Indo-Europeans who had generally stayed outside the camps and the worst affected Indonesian group of hundreds of thousands of forced labourers, the Romushas, ??recruited under false pretenses and used for slave labor.

The monument shows seventeen bronze figures of different ages arranged around a bier, with death in the middle. A representation of suffering, pain, despair and protest.

Behind the figures is a fence. This fence symbolizes togetherness for some, a fence behind which people were imprisoned.
The figures on the far side refer to the liberation. In the center of the monument is a map of Indonesia. Under this card the text: Second World War Dutch East Indies. On the left of the monument is the text "Dec. 8, 1941 – Aug. 15, 1945". The dates of the declaration of war by the Netherlands on Japan and the capitulation of Japan after the bombing of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

For the Netherlands, the Second World War had formally ended on August 15, 1945, not on May 5, 1945.
The text on the right of the monument "The spirit is victorious" is almost identical to the text on the memorials of the eight cemeteries in Indonesia and seven cemeteries spread over Southeast Asia where Dutch war victims are buried.
The many flowers that always lie at the foot of the monument come from the burials of survivors of the war in the Indies.
In front of the monument is a triangular column. In 2005 an urn with earth from the war cemeteries from Southeast Asia was bricked in the column, and in 2005 a miniature of the Monument was placed in Madurodam."
Source: (visit link)

Type of Resource: Monument Other from above - Please Specify: Nationaal Indisch Monument Date if Relevant: 01/01/1988 Nationality: NL Relevant Website: [Web Link] Relevant Position in Armed Forces: Not listed

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Date Logged Log   12/03/2022 GEOrgCACHING visited it