Marta Dusseldorp (born 1 February 1973), the granddaughter of Dick Dusseldorp, the founder of Lend Lease. Martha is an Australian stage, film and theatre actress. Her television credits include BlackJack, Crownies (and its spin-off Janet King), Jack Irish and A Place to Call Home. Her story is told in the Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) Good Weekend from 2020 and another article in the SMH from a year later.
Marta also featured in one of the SBS documentaries “Who do you think you are?’.
Among the remarkable documents preserved in the collection of the Bronbeek Museum is a carbon copy letter dating from June 1942. It records an initiative organised in Australia to support Dutch and Timorese guerrilla fighters Read more
Among the many personal objects preserved in the collection of the Bronbeek Museum is a small Australian Red Ensign carrying a handwritten dedication linked to one of the most significant dates in Australian history: 15 Read more
In his forthcoming book Bloedrode dageraad: De Tweede Wereldoorlog en de geboorte van het moderne Azië (Blood Red Dawn: The Second World War and the Birth of Modern Asia), historian Hans van de Ven argues Read more