When he was eighty years old, Boudewyn van Oort was told that he had suffered from PTSD. His early youth in a wartime Japanese internment camp in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) impacted his whole life. We hear about his memories of the camp, his difficult reintegration into society, and his late diagnosis. We also hear about the unique experiences of a group of forgotten young boys - who all struggled with life itself – and were largely misunderstood by even their closest relatives.
We talk to Irwin Oostindie and Vanessa Timmer of the Dutch Cultural Association of British Columbia. In a wide ranging conversation we cover the...
It is 1950 and five-year-old Anna makes the long journey by ship from the Netherlands to Canada. We talk to author Julia Sinke and...
Arthurs Boers’s first memory of his father is of him hurling a potted plant through a picture window in a fit of rage. He...