Author: NICHTING, J[OPIE],
Title: Japanse Vrouwenkampen in voormalig N.O. Indië 1942-1945. Troostmeisjesen andere verhalen. Orig. edn.
Description: S.L. [Hoogerheide], s.n. [J.D. Brekelmans-Nichting], s.d. [..], 1994. sm.8°. orig. stiff coloured pict. wraps. 84pp. some text-ills., incl. a full-p. facsim. plate after an original japanese document, C.V. of author, with portr., printed on lower outer wrap. Author's recollections on japanese internment-camps for women and children on Java, incl. a story on the so-called Troostmeisjes or comfortgirls, i.e. women and girls forced into prostitution on behalf of the japanes military, rarely found published. Privately published. Very good copy.

Keywords: japanese camps dutch females internees java pacific war troostmeisjes prostitution colonialism indonesia southeast asia comfortgirls