Dutch Indies War Memorial

Today it's exactly 70 years ago that the Japanese surrendered and my mother was freed from a prisoners of war camp in Indonesia.
Despite the fact that she was transferred to an Indonesian camp instead for another two years, it's still a very special day for her and many other Dutch people that lived in the Dutch Indies at that time.

There are memorial services at this War Monument in The Hague yearly and I felt it appropriate to feature it as my entry of the day.

Glad you are still with me Mom!

More wiki info:
The Indies Monument (Dutch: Indisch Monument) is a memorial in The Hague in memory of all Dutch citizens and soldiers killed during World War II as a result of the Japanese occupation (1941–19450. It is dedicated to all who died in battle, in prison camps or during forced labor. As stated in the mission statement of the 15 August 1945 Commemoration Foundation, it is also:

"a place where you can pass on to your children the part of your childhood spent in the Dutch East Indies”

The monument is unique, due to the fact that earth from the seven war cemeteries in Indonesia has been placed in an urn mounted on a small column at the front of the monument. In fall 2008 a second urn, with earth from the Galala Tantui war cemetery on Ambon Island, was placed behind the column.