Eight prison camps : a Dutch family in Japanese Java /

Eight prison camps : a Dutch family in Japanese Java /

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Author / Creator:	Bonga, Dieuwke Wendelaar.
Imprint:	Athens : Ohio University Center for International Studies, ©1996.
Description:	1 online resource (xii, 219 pages).
Language:	English
Series:	Monographs in international studies. Southeast Asia series ; no. 98 Monographs in international studies. Southeast Asia series ; no. 98.
Subject:	Bonga, Dieuwke Wendelaar. Bonga, Dieuwke Wendelaar. World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Indonesia -- Java. World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese. Prisoners of war -- Indonesia -- Java -- Biography. Concentration camps. Prisoners of war. Indonesia -- History -- Japanese occupation, 1942-1945 -- Personal narratives, Dutch. Indonesia. Indonesia -- Java. Biographies. History. Personal narratives -- Dutch.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11101054

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ISBN:	0585090459 9780585090450 0896801918 9780896801912
Notes:	Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 English. digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record.
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.
Other form:	Print version: Bonga, Dieuwke Wendelaar. Eight prison camps. Athens : Ohio University Center for International Studies, ©1996 0896801918

Table of 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.