For a year now, I am working on this wonderful oral history project Verhalenvanger (story catcher). Together with a symbolic table I have visited three elderly homes for people from the former Dutch East Indies and will continue with a tour along Surinamese and Antillean houses. After showing the inhabitants of the home old film footage, I catch their story together with pictures or documents. This collection of stories aims to tell the personal stories behind the grand political history and to show the communality within such a group of immigrants. In this project we focus on 'inburgering' and collect the stories of newcomers in Holland.
Read and enjoy!
photo: picture from a private collection from the website, showing son of the house posing next to the newly bought television set. Black-and-white off course.
