Pasar Malam Selamat Datang In Holland: A True Dutch-Indonesian Story - Paperback

by Geraldine Bruckel-Lang (Author)

A historical description and documentation biogrphy of Mary Bruckel-Beiten's founding of the first Pasar Malam (Dutch-Indonesian Fair) in 1958 in The Hague, Holland. With many documentary photo's, media articles, reports and letters from the former Dutch East Indies (Indonesia) and during the Japanese occupation and also in the post colonial integration years in Holland This book is in Dutch and next translated in English.

Author Biography

Geraldine Bruckel-Lang is Mary Bruckel's daughter in law. This book is mainly a collage of excerpts from Mary's own scrap books a historical description that she is the founder and organized the first 8 Pasar Malam Tong Tong in the Hague Holland in 1958. Drawings by Geraldine. Each original Dutch article is followed by a translation in English. Geraldine and Mary's son Willem met in The Hague in 1955. They have three children and two grandchildren and live in Sidney, British Columbia, Canada.