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Deze reactie kwam bij ons binnen naar aanleiding van een artikel over ons boek Liefde in tijden van Oorlog in de glossy Pinda, een eenmalige uitgave van Indische Nederlanders in Nederland, dat uitkwam in september 2019.

Het bij ons ingezonden bericht luidt:

Ben het niet eens met ‘liefdeskind’!!
Vaak zijn die kinderen gemaakt door soldaten die hun geilheid kwijt moesten bij de Indonesische vrouwen. En niet ‘uit liefde’ voor die vrouwen!!
Zo ook mijn vader, die ‘geilde’ op een Indonesisch meisje van 16 jaar.
Dat ‘liefdeskind’ ??? ben ik dus.
Heb mijn biologische vader gevonden toen ik 33 jaar oud was.
Toch nog wel 26 jaar intensief contact gehad.
Hij ook toe dat het schering en inslag was en er wel honderden Hollandse kindjes gemaakt zijn toentertijd!!
Dus laten we het niet over ‘liefdeskinderen’ hebben.

December 2019 Marion calls the editors of Oorlogsliefdekind. On this website she has read the story of Conny Latoel, who is looking for her father, the military Harry or Arie Willems or Willemse. Conny Latoel's post immediately reminded her of her father-in-law. It wouldn't be true, would it? Could her father-in-law be Conny's father?

Jaarlijks vindt in oktober de Maand van de Geschiedenis plaats. In 2014 was het thema: Vriend en Vijand. Zaterdagavond 18 oktober 2014 hielden Annegriet Wietsma en Stef Scagliola een lezing tijdens de inmiddels beroemde Nacht van de Geschiedenis in het Rijksmuseum, met als motto: Als de vijand je vader wordt. Het werd een goedbezochte bijeenkomst in de Picknickzaal, met een mooi en gevarieerd programma van drie lezingen. Er waren ook veel jongeren en studenten in de zaal, voor wie het thema nog helemaal nieuw was. Het is al met al een fijne avond geworden.

To all who have contributed to or are interested in the outcome of

the quest of Tetty Sahusilawane to her father:

please read this article.

Good news. The V-fund (National Fund for Peace, Freedom and Veterans Care) has given us a support grant to cover some of the costs of the hosting of this website. We also receive donations from readers and devotees regularly. We are very happy with this support. The next step is to find financial injections to translate the website into Indonesian in order to make the jump to Indonesia, so that the warlovechildren living in Indonesia can read and respond to this site and start their searches for family.
Your donations are still needed and welcome. This can be done via the DONATE button in the right column on this website.

Dear Father, if you are still alive, please read the following notice:

Your blood flows through my veins. Maybe we are lookalikes, maybe not
You abandoned me, cold and in poverty. Now, years later, we surely are different in our attitude:
I will never leave my descendants like you did.
Probably you don’t feel remorse. That’s the reason why I can not carry your name

Warlovechild José has found her father. It indeed appeared to be the Dutch veteran who was detected in 2009, but denied any possibility of being the father. A DNA test in November 2012 finally gave certainty. Two weeks later José and her husband were permitted to visit her father. His wife and daughter were also there. In the photo albums of her fathers military period in the Dutch Indies José recognized her mother on several pictures. José: “I am so relieved! My mother has spoken the truth. That is very important to me. Perhaps this was the one and only meeting with my father, I don’t know. It is now up to them to get in touch with me another time. But my quest is completed. This gives a tremendous peace of mind.”

You can read a report of José's quest on this website: ‘Another happy end of a search?’.

You can also read Jose’s complete story on this website: Category ‘Warlovechildren in the Netherlands’. Title: ‘The only thing I know for sure is that I’m a child of a Dutch soldier’.

The History Online Audience Award is awarded annually to the best historical site of the past year.

OUR WEBSITE ended IN THE TOP-10 OF AUDIENCE FAVORITES

Tuesday 12 February the final winner will be announced. We thank you all for your support.

Dear readers and users,

We, the three founders of the project ‘Warlovechild’, will have to finance the maintenance of this website Warlovechild.org.nl out of our own pockets from January 2013 onwards.

If everyone who cares about the project helps us to pay the necessary expenses, we can keep this website online.

How can you help us financially?

Saturday 7 April 2012 the documentary Tuan Papa will be screened in the CineMasia Filmfestival in Amsterdam.

Location: De Balie, Kleine Gartmanplantsoen, Amsterdam

The screening will start at 1:00 pm.

The film will be screened with English subtitles! Director Annegriet Wietsma is present to answer questions from the audience. Join us!

Dear all,

I would like to share with you that we visited our half-sister Edwina and her children and grandchildren in Indonesia. Last year we heard of each other’s existence for the first time. We combined this very exciting meeting with a holiday in Indonesia. The last four days of our holiday we stayed at home with Edwina, which was fun. All in all, we know each other pretty well now.

During the filming of the documentary Sir Daddy we were looking for Pak Mulyadi. He was supposed to be a child of a Dutch soldier. We knew that years ago he worked as a guard at the tea plantation of Pekalongan in West Java. My sister Tineke Hellwig, an Indonesian linguist, had interviewed him once for a different study. During that interview he had mentioned by chance that his father was a Dutch soldier. They never heard from him. According to the notes of my sister, Pak Mulyadi remembered the name of his father as ‘Permil’. A very strange name.

On our arrival at the plantation we quickly learned that Pak Mulyadi was deceased a few years earlier. But his son and his old mother, who once had been the lover of a Dutch soldier, were happy to receive us. It was an interesting interview with the grandson acting as the interpreter for his grandmother, who only spoke Sundanese and barely Indonesian. At one point we asked for the name of the Dutch grandfather. The name was unfortunately forgotten. But when we mentioned ‘Permil’ the conversation took an unexpected and emotional turn...

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On Tuesday, October 11, the Radio Gelderland broadcaster has focused on Warlovechild. Jan van Ewijk, who has been searching for his two half sisters for long, was invited for an interview.
Read more on the website of Radio Gelderland. Once we receive a link to the transmission, we will post it here as soon as possible.

Dear Warlovechild team,

With utmost interest the FIOM Ambulatory Foundation has followed the news on the website of Warlovechild from the start. FIOM can perhaps help people, both warlovechildren as well as Dutch veterans or their Dutch children, in their quests with general assistance and support.

Anna Montan and Patrick Lauwerends wrote the title song for our documentary Sir Daddy (Tuan Papa). The lyrics are sung in Dutch and Indonesian with a catchy melody in an atmospheric arrangement. The two have released a cd called CINTA that contains our song. Read more about this on www.annamontan.com .

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Nana, one of the interviewees in the film Tuan Papa (Sir Daddy), at the Tong Tong Fair in The Hague, holding a DVD of the film in her hands. The two young lovers on the DVD cover are her parents: mother Els and soldier Jack. Nana, living in Indonesia, visited her cousin Dien in the Netherlands this summer 2011. It must be emotional for her to see a bunch of DVDs with that beautiful picture on the sleeve: both her father and her mother have deceased. Fortunately we captured their stories in time and were able to reveal their love story in Tuan Papa and on this website!

Foto's van de TV-première van Tuan Papa, in het Soeterijntheater te Amsterdam.

Klik op "lees meer" om het fotoalbum te bekijken.

In Bandung

Not all our quests for warlovechildren in Indonesia ran smoothly. When we were in Bandung, the city in Indonesia that I know best, we decided to follow a tip from the Netherlands to check on a child of a Dutch soldier. It should not be that difficult to find him? Indeed, we have found his home. But what happened next …

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Annegriet Wietsma and Jean Hellwig were traveling in Indonesia in October 2009 for the filming of the documentary Tuan Papa, that was broadcast on Dutch television on July 1, 2010. While they were looking for warlovechildren and soldiers' sweethearts in Java and Bali, they filmed each other to keep the audience posted about their production developments.

Elly lives in the picturesque town of Kudus in Central Java. When she had the chance to go to the Netherlands in the fifties she did not want to leave her mother alone. So she stayed and has experienced what it is like to grow up as an occupiers' child. When their bamboo house was burned down by nationalists in the heat of battle, she lost the only written information about her Dutch father forever.
She remembers that he was serving at the Engineers Corps and that he probably came from Zeeland. Perhaps he died in the Zeeland floods because from 1953 they lost contact. Now his name is the only thing she knows about him. She calls herself proudly: Elly Hoekstra. Elly's story can be read on this website at "Warlovechildren in Indonesia" under the title: 'Hello dad, it's me: Elly, your child!'.

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Annegriet Wietsma and Jean Hellwig were traveling in Indonesia in October 2009 for the filming of the documentary Tuan Papa, that was broadcast on Dutch television on July 1, 2010. While they were looking for warlovechildren and soldiers' sweethearts in Java and Bali, they filmed each other to keep the audience posted about their production developments.

Op het Tong Tong Festival speelde Inge Dümpel haar monoloog 'Jij bent niet mijn oudste' als try-out. Onder regie van Zwaan de Vries liet Inge zich inspireren door de verhalen van Oorlogsliefdekind. Zij speelde overtuigend een kind, een vader en een moeder. Inge legt nu de laatste hand aan haar monoloog. De aanwezigen bij de try-out waren in ieder geval geraakt en ontroerd. Bekijk deze impressie met een aantal reacties van het publiek.

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