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Boudewyn van Oort

Java_photo_album

Java Photo Album Shorty after the Japanese capitulation on Java, September 1945, a photographer from Surabaya, Nikola Drakulic   visited a number of …

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 …

Kamphoofdtegen wil en dank

Kamphoofd tegen wil en Dank Dit is het verhaal van Elly Campioni,  een ‘vergeten’ oorlogsheldin, gebaseerd op haar manuscript dat decennia lang …

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 …