Max Cassutto

Cassuto emigrated in 1915 to Dutch East Indies as a young lawyer and teacher (later director of) schools, educating so-called 'natives' for administrative and managerial positions. 

In the time that his family lived in Bandung, they made many trips to the ‘onderneming’(plantation) Cigombong, near Bandung on the plateau of Preanger. 

He was stationed in Bandung in an administrative function. Max studied at Utrecht University to become a colonial administrator in the Dutch East Indies, and he parted there with his newly wed bride Puck van Zuiden in 1939. Max, his wife Puck and their son Rob became involved in the pacific part of the world war, which came to Indonesia in march 1942; Max had to work as a slave laborer at the Burma railway, Puck, her parents and Rob were interned in several Japanese camps on the isle of Java.