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Renewed website Jodensavanne Foundation
The Surinamese Jodensavanne Foundation has launched a renewed website to highlight the special Jewish heritage of the Cassipora Creek and Jodensavanne communities.
Both settlements are an exceptional testimony of a Jewish civilization within the Atlantic Sephardic Diaspora that has disappeared. The...
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Jodensavanne on YouTube
The Jodensavanne Foundation (Suriname) has posted short videos (in Dutch) of up to three minutes on YouTube that show the special value of Jodensavanne, the longest-functioning autonomous Jewish settlement in the Americas. Board members Harrold Sijlbing and Stephen Fokké, together with the young arc...
Short documentary ‘Dutch Coromandel – Rise and fall’
Independent filmmaker Ghouse Samadh was born in Srinivasapuram in India, but love brought him to the Netherlands. His homeland has remained in his heart, especially the environment and history. A history that the Netherlands shares with India. To give his Dutch-born children something of his own chi...
Short documentary Nagapattinam
Gravity Architecture and Engineering, Coimbatore, made a short documentary on the restoration of two Dutch tombs on the Karikop Cemetery in Nagapattinam, India. Including an interview with the restoration architect involved, Sakthi Murugan.
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SharedCemeteries.net launch
Press release
17 December 2020
SharedCemeteries.net A portal about shared funerary heritage worldwide
The Dutch Dodenakkers.nl Foundation launches the bilingual website SharedCemeteries.net (https://sharedcemeteries.net) about funerary heritage in former Dutch colonies, posts and fortifications w...
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Shared Cemeteries is all about (former Dutch) funerary heritage all over the world. The website is a non-profit collaboration between organizations, institutions and researchers from different countries involved in funerary heritage with a Dutch background. These can be historical cemeteries, churches as well as individual grave monuments. Shared Cemeteries is 'work in progress' and committed to share knowledge and information.
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Suriname
Historic Burial Sites in the Districts
The core of the Surinamese economy was formed by the plantations until well into the nineteenth century. The plantation was the production unit, but also the social unit: an autonomous community of be...
Remains of the old EBGS cemetery Maria's Rust
A few years ago, the historian Mildred Caprino drew the attention of the Suriname Built Heritage Foundation (SGES) to the fact that a tombstone can be found on a plot on the Beter Wonenstraat in Frima...
Fa Tjauw Koen Sang
The history of a cemetery for Chinese residents of Paramaribo goes back to the late nineteenth century. Just before the turn of the century, the Kong Ngie Tong Association established a final resting ...
India
Short introduction to Karikop
Not long after the Dutch conquered the fort at Nagapattinam from the Portuguese in 1665, a new cemetery was put into use, further inland. The cemetery is known today as "karikop", a corruption of the ...
Old Cemetery Nagapattinam
In 1658 the VOC captured the Portuguese fort at Nagapattinam. In addition to textiles, the VOC traded in Nagapattinam also in elephants, which were caught in Ceylon and sold here to Indian rulers. How...
Research & Projects
Thesis on Dutch Cemetery in Surat. 2020 - present
Indian architect Kaanan Thakkar is currently working on a thesis on the Dutch Cemetery in Surat as part of the Advanced Masters in Conservation of Mo...
Japan
Hendrik Duurkoop’s gravestone
The gravestone of Hendrik Duurkoop in the Dutch Cemetery at Goshinji temple in Nagasaki has long been famous as the oldest surviving gravestone in Japan belonging to a European.[1] Duurkoop, who divid...
Guido Hermann Fridolin Verbeek
In 2003, Ms Hisayo Murase published the book 'Verbeck of Japan'. The book is a translation in Japanese of the biography of Guido Hermann Fridolin Verbeek written by W.E. Griffis in 1901 and provided w...
Buried at the other side of the bay (from 1655)
In October 1654 the Dutch were finally given permission to bury their dead on land instead of the sea, but it still took almost a year before the first body was actually interred in a grave.
On ...
USA
The Stuyvesant Vault
Peter Stuyvesant was director-general of the Dutch colony of New Netherland from 1647 until it was ceded to the English in 1664. Stuyvesant was not well liked. Although the colony continued to expand ...
Rural Cemetery Albany
It seems unlikely that the 400-acre Rural Cemetery in Albany has anything to do with the Dutch who founded a fort here in the early seventeenth century. The cemetery is located far north of the city a...
Early Dutch Cemeteries I - New Amsterdam
Traces of a Dutch presence can be found all over the world from the past few hundred years. From Spitsbergen to Brazil and from North America to India, remains of Dutch trade can be found everywhere a...
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