THE memory is still strong in her head even though the event took place 60 years ago. Nirwani Pulungan, 77, still remembers the events surrounding her uncle Parlindoengan Loebis on his return to Indonesia 1945 after four years of incarceration in a Nazi concentration camp in Germany.

Nana, the name by which Nirwani is fondly called, was then 14. She clearly remembers that nights party at her parents house on Jalan Malabar 31 at Menteng in Central