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In this lecture, Peter van Riel reflects on the history of Indo-Dutch migration, his professional relief work with victims of war from the Dutch East-Indies, and his efforts to preserve their histories in their own words. As a son of an Indo mother, born on Java, and of a Dutch father who was sent to Indonesia in 1946 as a soldier, Peter van Riel is part of the Indo family. This is a relatively large and diverse ethnic minority in the Netherlands counting around 1,2 million. The small history of his parents is a reflection of the major developments in the world in the years shortly after World War II.