De vergeten krijgers

Daniel Cordus, a grandson of African warrior Cordus - recruited in 1831 for the colonial army in the Dutch East Indies - was captured as a POW when the Japanese Imperial Army invaded the colony in March 1942. Together with his two older brothers, he was put to work along the Death Railway between Burma and Thailand. While Daniel's brother Jan did not survive captivity, his other brother Jozef was killed during the civil war that raged in the colony right after the war. As Dutch citizens, the des