War Love Child - Dutch soldier's children

The digitization of important additional private documents as complementary source material pertaining to the oral history AV data sets of the project War Love Child (funded by Ministry of Health Welfare and Sport as part of Heritage of War, Witnesses Accounts) which were deposited at DANS end 2009. This KDP project contains a wealth of material that support and illustrate the stories of respondents, such as birth certificates, engagement cards from their military father and Indonesian mother, diaries, declarations on marital status, personal correspondence, photographs, documents from orphanages where the children grew up, data on the search for the father's, etc. These personal documents are additional data sets to the interviews and transcriptions deposited at DANS in 2009.

As part of this project additional source material composed of relevant private documents of five respondents is described and digitized. These personal documents belong to four War Love Children residing in the Netherlands and one soldier father, also residing in the Netherlands. With all five of these respondents previously an Oral History video interview was held, the data and metadata have been deposited at DANS. The additional source material was in consultation with and approval of the respondents selected first and then handed over to be digitized. The material was taken, scanned and categorized.

For more information, see the data sets in EASY and website of the project.