It is amazing and in a way disturbing but this girl was born literally minutes away from where I was born and yet I was not aware of her existence or had even heard of her until now.

1944

Just a few seconds… that’s how long this girl stared into the camera on 19...read more

Today 69 years ago one of the Netherlands’s most controversial artists passed away. He went from collaborator to hero in the same criminal trial.

Henricus Antonius “Han” van Meegeren ( 10 October 1889 – 30 December 1947) was a Dutch...read more

Although the Japanese may have called it an Internment camp, make no mistake about it, Tjideng was nothing other then a concentration camp.

Batavia came under Japanese control in 1942, and part of the city, called Camp Tjideng, was used for the internment of European (often Dutch) women...read more