Author: KORTEWEG, (CAPT.),
Title: De 1000 van Amahei. First edn.
Description: [Batavia], s.n., s.d. [..], 1946. Small 8°, original wraps., stapled. 47pp. Diagrams depicting. food-supply to the P.O.W., composition of the so-called Amahei group, costs of food-supply & a name-list of tog. 11 japanese officers/subaltern officers, tried before the tribunal at Batavia, of which 6 received the death-penalty. Neither in Klooster, nor in RIOD. A very rare eye-witness account of the so-called '1000 of Amahei', 1000 P.O.W. in the japanese concentration-camps at Amahei, Moluccas. Fine copy.

Keywords: japanese camps p.o.w. amahei moluccas recollections pacific war occupation war crimes colonialism indonesia southeast asia history