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Damai, vrede (Sowjet-vrouwen op bezoek in Indonesië)

Peace: Soviet women visit Indonesia (account by Soviet delegates)

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De Waarheid, 29 Sep 1954, p. 5: Dutch printing of an account from Soviet Woman by Soviet delegates Alexandra Cholopowa and Jekaterina Sjeweljowa on their three-week visit to Indonesia at Gerwani's invitation. They describe the word 'damai' (peace), women workers' and plantation conditions in East Java and Bandung, the SOBSI-backed workers, illiteracy, and a Gerwani-founded school for the poorest children in Yogyakarta and the Gerwani water-supply campaign.

De Waarheid, 29 Sep 1954, hlm. 5: cetak ulang berbahasa Belanda tulisan di Soviet Woman oleh delegasi Soviet Alexandra Cholopowa dan Jekaterina Sjeweljowa tentang kunjungan tiga minggu ke Indonesia atas undangan Gerwani. Mereka menggambarkan kata 'damai', kondisi buruh perempuan dan perkebunan di Jawa Timur dan Bandung, buruh yang didukung SOBSI, buta huruf, sekolah bagi anak termiskin yang didirikan Gerwani di Yogyakarta, dan kampanye air bersih Gerwani.

“Relevance raised from C: substantial Soviet-delegate account of Gerwani activities.”

People

Alexandra KholopovaJekaterina Sjeweljowa

Organisations

Indonesian Women's Movement (Gerwani)Soviet Women's CommitteeAll-Indonesia Central Labour Organisation

Places

JakartaEast JavaBandungYogyakartaSurabayaSoviet Union

Topics

Gerwani organisationUSSR and Eastern Europeeducation and literacypeasant womenlabour and workersWIDF and international women's movement

Tags

delegation abroad

Details

Date
1954-09-29
Creator
De Waarheid
Publication
De Waarheid
Document type
newspaper article (newspaper or periodical article/page (text transcription/OCR))
Language
Dutch
Perspective
Socialist-bloc/solidarity press
Source role
primary
Country
Netherlands
Period
1950–1954
Source archive
Delpher (KB, Netherlands) · source link
Access
open access (Delpher) Open access source: file can be shown on the website.
File
01 Primary Sources/1.5 Newspapers and Periodicals/Dutch press (1945-2000) - articles on Gerwis, Gerwani and members (Delpher)/De Waarheid (1954-09-29) - DAMAI, VREDE [Delpher ddd-010370132-a0113].txt
OCR / text
Poor (0.741) · proof-reading: whole text (Claude, Oct 2026) · translation: yes
Collection
01 Primary Sources › 1.5 Newspapers and Periodicals › Dutch press (1945-2000) - articles on Gerwis, Gerwani and members (Delpher)
Summary basis
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