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Japanese Prison Camp

Java

Java Civilian Japanese Prison Camps The largest concentration of Civilian Prison camps  was established on Java by the Japanese Imperial army. The  …

ADEK prison camp

ADEK prison camp  consisted of an extensive complex of barracks  in the southern outskirts of Batavia , used before the war by …

Grogol

Grogol Grogol prison camp , a former insane asylum, was located  three kilometers west of Batavia (todays Jakarta), close to the railway …

Sonei Kenichi

Elizabeth Muthert

Elizabeth Muthert Kaicho Elizabeth C. Muthert served as kaicho in Tjideng women’s and children’s camp from the time it cam under Japanese …

Aek Paminke Japanese Prison camps

Aek Pamienke

Aek Pamienke Aek Pamienke is the collective name for  three  Japanese Civilian  Prisoner of War Camps established on a former, eponymous rubber plantation …

Japanese POW camp disposition

Sumatra Japanese Prison Camps

Japanese Prison camps on Sumatra. By the time of the Japanese capitulation ( 15 August 1945) , all European civilian prisoners of …

Si Ringo Ringo

Si Rengorengo

Si Rengorengo   Si Rengorengo  (also called Si Ringo Ringo) was a Japanese prison camp for men and boys , in existence between  …

Rantauprabat internment camps

Rantau Prabat

Rantau Prabat Rantau Prabat is a region on the north east coast of Sumatra, to the east of the coastal city of …

Bangkong camp

Bangkong

Bangkong Bangkong  started off as an internment camp for women and children ( Bangkong 1) , but after September 1944 it was …

Banjoe Biroe

Banjoe Biroe  The Banjoe Biroe area  in central Java had three Japanese internment camps for women and children. Banjoe Biroe is Malay …