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Surat Dari Digul Abdurachman - Interview file

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Title
Surat Dari Digul Abdurachman - Interview file
Subject
Dutch East Indies
Internment camps
Nationalism
Indonesia--History--Revolution, 1945-1949
Detention of persons
Prisoners of war--Australia
Category
3. World War I
4. World War II
5. Cold War (including Decolonisation)
Author
Dulrachman
Keywords
Boven Digoel
Current holder
Flinders University
Period of reference
1931 – 1972
Date
January 1, 1931
Link
https://flinders.alma.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/delivery/61FUL_INST:FUL/12212147530001771
Item number
AL/Thesis/169
Access rights
Digitised
Rights
In Copyright (although current copyright status is unclear)
Country of origin
Indonesia
Australia
Place
Thursday Island
Boven Digul
Journey
Boven Digul
Sydney
Brisbane
Jayapura (formerly Hollandia)
Language
Indonesian
Description from source
Abdurachman / Dulrachman was a member of the nationalist movement; account of his escape from Boven Digul prison camp in 1929; recapture in Australia and subsequent return to Digul; he was taken again to Australia with other inmates by Dutch in 1942-1945; he is mentioned in “Black Armada” by Rupert Lockwood as a spokesperson for the Indonesian prisoners brought from Boven Digul prison camp to Australia before the Japanese occupied Indonesia. ‘Riwajat Dulrachman’; interview with Dulrachman by A. Lucas; biographical notes. Typed; handwritten, 18 pages.

This file was donated by Anton Lucas, Adelaide, S.A. Anton Lucas Collection.
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Conversation or interview transcripts
Typescripts
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