Costavina Aya "Coosje" Ayal (15 April 1926 – 28 March 2015) was a resistance fighter in Western New Guinea during World War II.[1] She gained fame as the sole female survivor of the only guerrilla group in the Dutch East Indies (present-day Indonesia) that held out during the Japanese occupation.
^"Coos Ayal (Titawai (Nederlands-Indië), 15 april 1926 - Ridderkerk, 28 maart 2015)". Oorlogsbronnen.nl (in Dutch). Network of War Collections. Archived from the original on 10 August 2023. Retrieved 9 August 2023.
the Japanese occupation. CoosjeAyal was born in the village of Titawaai on the island of Nusa Laut in the Moluccas. When Ayal was six years old, she was...
Netherlands) with a black border on each edge. Aart Alblas Willem Arondeus CoosjeAyal Tex Banwell Ina Boekbinder Titus Brandsma Jan van Borssum Buisman Jaap...
December 1992, the original royal decree was rescinded and replaced. CoosjeAyal Ted Meines Truus Menger-Oversteegen Freddie Oversteegen Adriaan Paulen...
the Netherlands. Here she came to live in Voorschoten, South Holland. CoosjeAyal – another notable female resistance fighter in the Dutch East Indies...
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