Repatriates form Dutch East Indies home.

Repatriates form Dutch East Indies home. The Almazora lying in Ymuiden locks, which were damaged in Allied bombing and by German destruction furor, and has only shortly been open to ships of this size. Repatriated Dutch crowd the railings, looking on Holland for the first time in at least six years, while crowds of family memebers who vainly tried to get on board are yelling to their intimates. NI 697 Een bezoeker van de Beeldbank schrijft: ''Op 8 januari 1946 arriveerde mijn vader Cornelis Boot, na overgestapt te zijn van de Nieuw Amsterdam in Southhampton in IJmuiden met dit schip. Hij kwam als overlevende van de Pakan Baru-spoorwegkampen (Java) uit Indonesie.''