- A Brief Note on the History of the Pacific War
This surely must be one of the most bizarre wars in recent history. Although its official commencement is given as Dec 7 1941, Japanese soldiers had by then…
- Tjideng Camp List of names
I have available the camp name register of August 1945. This provides name, number of family members and name of previous camp. From this I have for instance…
- BOOK EXTRACT
1. MAY 10, 1940
When my father, Boudewyn A. J. van Oort, stepped out of the Chevrolet on Friday night, my mother, Wilhelmina, immediately knew something…
- Recently reviewed in de Krant
So glad to see the review (your book Tjideng Reunion) nin the january 2009 edition of de Krant
- Map of Tjihapit Camp in Bandoeng
This prewar map shows the surroundings of Bandoeng (Bandung). It is dated around 1937.
The Tjihapit district lay along the north eastern edge of town.
Inclu…
- Transportation and Internment
What follows is a short description of some of the statistical data I collected and refer to in my book, Tjideng Reunion.
Internment of Europeans on Java…
- Sone Tribunal
Sone Tribunal
Sone, our Camp Commandant on trial for war crimes in Singapore. He was convicted and executed.
Photo from NIOD ( Netherlands Institute of…
- Waiting in Egypt
Our friends who had accompanied us from South Africa to the Indies in 1940, now recuperating at Ismailia (Egypt) and waiting for availability of shipping…
- Refugees
After the war we returned to South Africa as Refugees. Here is a picture of my family on the beach at Durban. In this first postwar family photograph- note my…
- Allies Arrive in Tandjong Priok
Towards the end of September 1945, one and a half months after the war had ended, the first Allied military personnel set foot on Java. The arrival of HMS…
- Trivelli House
Trivelli House
This is a typical house on the main street of Tjideng camp.
These images give an impression of our living conditions. Trivelli was the name…
- 7th Birthday at Tjideng Camp
The Author, age 7 (barefoot) and friend
This is an image of yours truly at age 7 standing with bare feet by the solitary water supply for our house. Our house…
- Gedek Destruction
Gedek Destruction
When food became more plentiful after the war we needed firewood and the bamboo wall was an attractive source of this commodity. The…
- Mothers and Children at Tjideng Camp
In the Tjideng camp, houses that had been designed to accommodate a normal family now held well in excess of 100 women and children. There are claims that…
- Coffin Factory
Shortly after we arrived in Tjideng the supply of coffins dried up for reasons unknown. Henceforth a coffin making factory was established in Tjideng camp…
- Tjideng Camp Gate
Tjideng Camp Gate, 1945
This picture appears on the front cover of the book, Tjideng Reunion. It shows the Tjideng camp gate shortly after the war was…
- Only a Miracle Can Save You
Cartoon by Hartley (1942-1945)
- Dress Rehearsal for Transport
Dress Rehearsal
Dress Rehearsal: Prior to the first group of internees being shipped out of Tjihapit for destinations unknown to themselves, the Japanese…
- Communal Camp Kitchen
This drawing of the communal Tjihapit camp kitchen was made by Lieske Stroobach on 4 October 1944.
- Guards in Disguise
Murui and Tetsuka Dressed as Women
Murui and Tetsuka, two Japanese guards, tried to lay a trap for catching women conducting forbidden trade for food…
- Yeast from Urine
In my book I say very little about the men's camp, Tjimahi, where my father was interned. These two pictures however are referred to (but are not reproduced)…
- Headcounts
Appel or Tenko
Appel or Tenko: When we came under direct Japanese military supervision twice daily headcounts were conducted. This became a source of…
- Boy Prisoners in Tjimahi
As I got older during my internment period, I began to fear the day I would become ten years old, for that meant, becoming independent and leaving the care of…
- Toilet Tidy
Tjihapit Cloth
This was a toilet tidy made in the Tjihapit women's and children's camp by my mother for my grandmother on the occasion of her seventieth…
- Our Camp Ambulance
The Velo: Our Camp Ambulance
The "Velo" was a creation of some teen age boys in the Tjihapit camp. This was our camp ambulance. Rollo Hansen, the son of…
- Punishment for Trading
Punishment for trading through the camp wall
Punishment: washing the floor in the "gentlemen's office" was the least obnoxious form of punishment. In this…
- Boudewijn van Oort and his Mother
Boudewijn van Oort and his Mother
This photograph of the author and his mother was taken in Tjihapit camp for women and children, 1943.
- KMA Complex
KMA Complex
Celebrating a milestone in the construction of the KMA complex ( Royal Military Academy) in Bandung. My father is standing third from the…
- Japanese Money During the Occupation
Vijf Gulden
The Japanese army arrived with paper money, thoughtfully printed well in advance. (Printed in 1941) Metal was scarce so it was all paper money.…
- Pre-War Pictures
Tenjalenga
Photo by my father, in central Java.
Seraju Valley
Photograph made by my father in central Java. (Serajoe street was named after this…
- Dutch Volunteers on the Straat Soenda
Straat Soenda
Photo taken of the the first group of Dutch volunteers sailing on the KPM freighter, m.v. Straat Soenda, from Durban, South Africa to Batavia…
- Reiger (Heron)
Reiger (Heron) 1937: This was the name of a KLM airplane, making a pioneering flight from Amsterdam to Johannesburg in 1937. Of especial interest is the…
- Lombardy East
Lombardy East, 1937
The first house my father designed and built for himself. Today this entire area of the Johannesburg-Germiston region is a sea of…
