Download or read book Reconnecting Through Our Roots written by Dennis De Witt and published by Malaysian Dutch Descendants Project. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reconnecting Through Our Roots was published with the kind assistance from the Royal Netherlands Embassy in Malaysia and the Netherlands Association Malaysia. It is one of the very few publications that tells of a forgotten Malaysian ethnic group: the Dutch descendants in Malaysia. Copies of the book was were freely distributed via the Malaysian National Library to libraries and resource centres of local heritage organisations, universities and public libraries all over the world. The book contains a record of the proceedings of the historic event entitled ‘Reconnecting through our roots — International gathering of Dutch descendants’ that was held on July 17th and 18th, 2004 in the 330 year old Atlas Ice Building located at Jonker Street, Malacca, Malaysia.