| Description |
xii, 219 pages ; 22 cm |
| Series |
Monographs in international studies. Southeast Asia series ; no. 98 |
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Monographs in international studies. Southeast Asia series ; no. 98
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| Contents |
1. Fore-Fathers and Mothers -- 2. The Indies, Why We Were There -- 3. The Indies, Our Home -- 4. The Unexpected Arrives -- 5. First Encounter -- 6. Headquarters -- 7. The Public School, Camp 1 -- 8. My H.B.S. and Camp Dibbits, Camps 2 and 3 -- 9. To Sumowono via Kletjoh, Camps 4 and 5 -- 10. Sumowono, continued -- 11. Ambarawa 2, Camp 6 -- 12. Ambarawa 2, continued -- 13. Moving Again -- 14. Muntilan, Camp 7 -- 15. Muntilan, More Stories -- 16. Banjubiru, Camp 8, and Freedom? -- 17. Fort Willem I. Camp 9 -- 18. From Semarang to Batavia, Camps 10 and 11 -- 19. The Queen Emma -- 20. Singapore I, Camp Irene, Number 12 -- 21. Singapore II, Camp Irene -- 22. Ids' and Papa's Stories -- 23. The Alcantara -- 24. On the Alcantara to Holland -- 25. We Arrived -- 26. It Never Ended |
| Summary |
Eldest daughter of eight children, the author grew up in Surakarta, Java, in what is now Indonesia. In the months following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, however, Dutch nationals were rounded up by Japanese soldiers and put in internment camps. Her father and brother were sent to separate men's camps, leaving the author, her mother, and the five younger children in the women's camp. In this and later seven other prison camps in central Java, their lives gradually deteriorated from early days of fear and crowding to near starvation, forced labor, beatings, and seeing others disappear or die. On the family's return to Holland after the war, they found a nation recovering from German occupation and largely ignorant of the horror of the Far East experience |
| Notes |
ANALYTIC |
| Subject |
Bonga, Dieuwke Wendelaar.
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Prisoners of war -- Indonesia -- Java -- Biography.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Indonesia -- Java.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.
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| SUBJECT |
Indonesia -- History -- Japanese occupation, 1942-1945 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85065748 -- Personal narratives, Dutch.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001715
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Indonesia -- History -- Japanese occupation, 1942-1945.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85065748
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| LC no. |
96033722 |
| ISBN |
0896801918 |
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