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Soejono Family, Heroes for the Dutch and Indonesians

Raden Adipati Ario Soejono became a minister in the cabinet of Queen Wilhelmina, while his children fought against the Nazi occupation.

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Historia

3 Desember 2023

R.A.A. Soejono's family when they arrived in The Hague in the summer of 1930. Irawan was standing on the right. (Nieuwe Tilburgsche Courant, July 14, 1930).

Joss Wibisono
4 Des 2023
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IN early 2020, while Indonesia commemorated its 75th anniversary of the proclamation of independence, Europe already commemorated three-quarters of a century of their liberation from Nazi-German occupation. The commemoration, however, didn't exclude Indonesians, who made considerable contributions especially in the Dutch resistance to Nazi-German occupation during the Second World War. At the end of January 2020, at two venues in Leiden, Irawan Soejono's centenary was commemorated along with the 75th anniversary of the Indonesian student's death by a bullet from a Wehrmacht soldier, the Nazi-German occupation force.