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GA-00858 1954-01-28 De Waarheid rel B

Toch warmte, ondanks koude op Indonesische avond

Warmth despite cold on the Indonesian evening: NVB Amsterdam event report

De Waarheid, 28 Jan 1954, p. 2: report on the NVB Amsterdam 'Indonesia evening' attended by about 200 women, with krontjong music, a reading from Multatuli, a film from the High Commission, and Annie Averink's speech on Indonesia's colonial past and on Gerwis's tens of thousands of members campaigning for a democratic

GA-00949 1979-03-24 De Waarheid rel A

Gerwani (Annie van Ommeren over Tanti Aidit en de hetze tegen Gerwani)

Gerwani (Annie van Ommeren on Tanti Aidit and the witch-hunt against Gerwani)

De Waarheid, 24 Mar 1979, p. 8: excerpt from Annie van Ommeren on Tanti Aidit, board member of Gerwani, sister organisation of the NVB. She says Gerwani had one million members, was the target of a huge smear campaign during and after the 1965 coup, with women accused of atrocities, which found fertile ground among rea