TJIDENG REUNION: A MEMOIR OF WW II ON JAVA
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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.
Included in the book, Tjideng Reunion, is this detailed map of the camp itself.
To clarify the position of the camp, comparison of the two images makes the location obvious because of the curious road layout.
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This is an image of yours truly at age 7 standing with bare feet by the solitary water supply for our house. Our house stood very close to the gate, and we two kids were probably the first interned children the photographer encountered.
For the occasion my young friend placed my birthday present on his head.
The rest of the Indian outfit was too grotesquely hot to be worn when straddling the equator. I am positive that this exact same outfit was passed on from one birthday boy to the next in rapid succession. We arrived in the Tjideng camp with next to nothing. The mother of the previous owner of the Indian outfit had been in Tjideng from the very start and so still had quite a lot of possessions.
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This photograph of the author and his mother was taken in Tjihapit camp for women and children, 1943.
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