Author: MICHIELSEN-BALJON, E.,
Title: Alles is in Orde...Fushimban IJo Arimasen. Orig. edn.
Description: Den Haag, IdeaZ, 1997. Orig. thin limp wrappers, coloured illustrated front wrapper. 250pp. Many black/white ills. and portraits in text and on plates, many ground-plans of japanese camps in text after original drawings, many other ills. after original drawings made-on-the-spot, register of names of internees, glossary of words and expressions derived from the indonesian/japanese language-dutch, table of contents. Author's detailed recollections, derived from her diaries as kept during her period as internee in the japanese concentration camps/prisons Tjihapit and Struiswijk (Batavia). Supplies an excellent authentic picture of daily camp-life, especially to camp Struiswijk, incl. a detailed description with ground-plans of this notorious camp, including the so-called Bersiapperiod, after the liberation and the repatriation to the Netherlands. The subtitle Fishimban IJo Arimasen represents the phrase spoken by women to Japanese guards, checking barracks at night. A very fine copy.

Keywords: recollections pacific war japanese camps tjihapit struiswijk bersiap liberation history batavia colonialism indonesia southeast asia buur java