IN early 2020, while Indonesia commemorated its 75th anniversary of the proclamation of independence, Europe already commemorated three-quarters of a century of their liberation from Nazi-German occupation. The commemoration, however, didn't exclude Indonesians, who made considerable contributions especially in the Dutch resistance to Nazi-German occupation during the Second World War. At the end of January 2020, at two venues in Leiden, Irawan Soejono's centenary was commemorated along with the 75th anniversary of the Indonesian student's death by a bullet from a Wehrmacht soldier, the Nazi-German occupation force.

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