Elly's (81) Great Love Was Murdered in the Train Hijacking Near Wijster: 'I Heard the Shot on the Radio'

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We might forget it because of the current threat of terrorism, but our country has previously been gripped by terror. The 1970s were marked by hostage situations, with the train hijacking in Wijster as one of the sad low points. For Elly Bierling (81), life after Wijster was never the same.

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The Netherlands is commemorating the 50th anniversary of a bloody kidnapping that has left it with a deep sense of its colonial past. Radicals demanding independence for the South Moluccas held dozens of hostages for 12 days, murdering three of them in front of journalists. The bloody drama from December 1975 is recounted in the next installment of the Famous Photos series.