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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Sone, our Camp Commandant on trial for war crimes in Singapore. He was convicted and executed.
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Dress Rehearsal: Prior to the first group of internees being shipped out of Tjihapit for destinations unknown to themselves, the Japanese Camp Commandant needed to satisfy himself that no forbidden items such as books of any description remained in the possession of internees, and that the weight limit of luggage was not exceeded. Hence a dry run (or dress rehearsal) was organized.
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Communal Kitchen at Tjihapit
This drawing of the communal Tjihapit camp kitchen was made by Lieske Stroobach on 4 October 1944.
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Murui and Tetsuka, two Japanese guards, tried to lay a trap for catching women conducting forbidden trade for food through the bamboo camp wall.
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Appel or Tenko: When we came under direct Japanese military supervision twice daily headcounts were conducted. This became a source of immense frustration and always was accompanied by confusion.
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The “Velo” was a creation of some teen age boys in the Tjihapit camp. This was our camp ambulance. Rollo Hansen, the son of a colleague of my father is credited with the invention. The sketch was drawn after the war by H. Liesker, a fellow teenage Tjihapit camp internee. Within a year these older teen age boys had been evicted from the camp: some were lucky to be reunited with their fathers, many others ended up looking after themselves.
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Punishment: washing the floor in the “gentlemen’s office” was the least obnoxious form of punishment. In this case for the crime of trying to conduct illegal trade through the camp wall.
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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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