1943 Do not think that Camp Almere could be found in the Polder. Kamp Almere was located in The Gooi, between Bussum and Huizen. The name Almere is derived from the lakes IJsselmeer and Markermeer that formerly called Almere. During the WW2, it was a NAD camp. A kind of prison camp by the German occupiers where Dutch men were trained to, for example, build channels. What these Dutch men did not know was that some of them would eventually end up at the eastern front to build tank traps and trenches. A default NAD camp had four living barracks around a square. These living barracks each had three rooms for sixteen persons. Camp Almere had 12 of such of barracks.

1946 After the war, Camp Almere was used as Rijksobeservatiehuis where young delinquents political (NSB children) were housed. Their parents were placed in internment camps while their "politically infected children" were placed in institutions and foster families were given a reeducation to become "patriotic" citizens. But before this happened they were under supervision placed in a Rijksobeservatiehuis. This because they want to estimate their mental state before it was decided where the children would get their reeducation.

1951 On March 21 arrived the first 200 Moluccan camp in Almere. For the Dutch it was a time has to rebuild everything again and rest. For the Moluccan people began a new "battle": They were mandatory traveled to an unknown cold country. With a few suitcases full of the necessary gear, left the rest of their belongings in their homeland. Along the way it was told that they were discharged from the army. With the whole family in one room of +/- 15 square meters. Some had trauma because of what they had experienced during the war. No idea when they could return or what they can expect.

1972 The last year that the camp was used. They lived 21 years in wooden barracks. Most of them found work in the region and had been moved to a normal house in Huizen. Huizen has never really knew a Moluccan district such as the Moluccan district in Assen or Vught. Huizen did have a residential district near the Kostmand which consisted partly of Moluccan families, but this was not really a Moluccan district. Foundation 60 Years Moluccan Huizen has placed a memorial at the old entrance of the camp. Ingrid and I go there sometimes, it is all that remains of the place where I was borned. Although the PEN cottage is still there and showing the painted words: West Irian, No Colony.