Indonesia Second World War Monument The Hague Editorial Photo

Netherlands, province South Holland, city The Hague: In The Scheveningen Woods is the Indian memorial to all Dutch citizens and soldiers in the Second World War have become the victims of the occupation of Japan, Japanese [1941-1945] of the former Dutch East Indies. They perished in the battle, the camps or during forced labor. It was designed by Jaroslawa Dankowa also known by the name of Dankowa-den Broek, a Dutch sculptor, artist. The monument consists of 17, seventeen, images and text `spirit overcomes. Plates placed in front of the earth`s seven cemeteries in Southeast Asia bricked and the text: `the Indian monument is a sign of their suffering and symbol of the struggle against oppression and terror. Countless soldiers, resistance fighters and civilians of all ethnicities in and outside the camps lost their lives `. For the Indian community is August 15 their Liberation Day, because the Japanese surrender in the Dutch East Indies on 15 August 1945.