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Home » Background » 'Grandchildren commemorate the death railway' (video)
'Grandchildren commemorate the death railway' (video)
Kanchanaburi War Cemetery – Foodforthoughts / Shutterstock.com
Every year on August 15, we commemorate the official end of the Second World War for the Kingdom of the Netherlands and commemorate all victims of the war with Japan and the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies.
Commissioned by the embassy, #HumanRightsinthePicture made a short film and lesson plan for students aged 15-18 about the “Death Railway” that was built by forced laborers in Thailand and Burma (now Myanmar). This part of history is unknown to many young people and it is important to change that.
Human Rights in the Picture interviewed three grandchildren of grandparents who worked on the railroad.
In honor of the commemoration on August 15, the film can be viewed online until Monday:
Source: Dutch embassy in Bangkok
Was planning to go both last year and this year, with the Dutch Embassy afterwards.
Now that I'm here
Unfortunately canceled due to the pandemic
Hans van Mourik
You can also go there with yourself every day throughout the year.
Because even without the presence of the embassy you can commemorate the dead, it doesn't always have to happen on a certain day of the year.
More often much better as you are usually one of the few, I think rather the only one on the spot at such a time.
Jan Beute.
Been there very much what is happening there
This response relates well to this entry.
https://www.2doc.nl/speel~WO_VPRO_609952~spoor-van-100-000-doden-npo-doc-exclusief~.html
Hans van Mourik
I was there in September 2006 during my first introduction to Thailand with a group tour. The group also included 2 Indian ladies in their 60s. They always had a lot of fun on the bus, but that day they were quiet. When we arrived close to the cemetery, they told me that their father must be buried somewhere in Kanchanaburi. She did not know which cemetery. No one from the family has ever been there and that thought made them quite emotional. I asked them if they would like it if we, the superiors in the group, tried to find the grave. They liked that. We searched with a number of people and indeed found the grave. The guide quickly bought flowers and we guided the 2 ladies to the gravestone with his name. A lot of emotion was released. We gave the ladies time and space to say goodbye at their father's grave. I took some pictures of it and gave it to them digitally and printed. A special moment that I will never forget. It is just a small example of a lot of loss and sadness in Kanchanaburi.