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What a way to start the new year!

Good news about Henk Brouwers artwork! Thanks to the good observation of Museum Bronbeek 27 beautiful drawings of Henk Brouwer have been discovered! Brouwer produced them in 1947 on request of the Dutch naval preacher Siebren Oegema, who wrote down his war experiences in the Dutch East Indies in a manuscript. Unfortunately the manuscript was never published, but it was securely kept, together with Brouwers drawings, in the archives of the NIMH, the Dutch Institute for Military History.

The drawings illlustrate the bitter story of Siebren Oegema’s war years on Java, where he suffered severely from the cruelties of the Japanese occupier. Together the manuscript and the drawings give a shrill testimony of what people had to endure, not only under the Japanese occupation but during the Indonesian struggle for independance as well. We will present the drawings in the Bronbeek exhibition, but here’s a little foretaste.

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We found another portrait!

After our call in Aanspraak, the magazine for resistance fighters and war victims of the Dutch Sociale Verzekeringsbank, the daughter of Mr Ad van de Nagel gave us a call. She told us that her father had also been imprisoned in Changi. Ad van der Nagel, born in Rotterdam in 1903, joined the army in the Dutch East-Indies when he was 18. After fulfilling his military service, he first worked at a cocoa plantation in Sumatra, then moved to a plantation in the east of Java. During the mobilization in 1941 he was conscripted into the army; almost a year later he was imprisoned by the Japanese. Januari 1943 he ended up in Changi, where he was portrayed by his fellow-inmate Henk Brouwer.

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Vfonds supports Henk Brouwer Project

Vfonds, the Dutch national fund for peace, freedom and veterans care, decided to support Tijdlijn Historische Projecten with a considerable amount of money. Every year vfonds supports more than 200 projects that are engaged in veterans care and in keeping the memory alive of the war and its victims. Now vfonds also supports our Henk Brouwer project. Tijdlijn thanks vfonds for its generosity!

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Expo on work Henk Brouwer

In 2018 Museum Bronbeek in Arnhem, the Netherlands, will schedule an exhibition on the creative work of Henk Brouwer. This exhibition will present Henk Brouwer’s work in the historical context of WW II and more specific in the context of Changi POW camp in Singapore.
Opening expected August 2018

 

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NIOD support for search of portraits

NIOD, the renowned Dutch Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, has offered to extend its contribution to the Tijdlijn-search for portraits of Henk Brouwer by appointing a student trainee for several months. The trainee will start with the search in the Netherlands. Henk Brouwer portrayed at least 45 Dutch prisoners during his time in Changi.

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