Author: SMIT, H.,
Title: Van Katjong tot Rijks Ambtenaar. Uit het leven van een (ver)Indisch(t)e jongen. Eersted druk. [First edn.].
Description: Den Haag, Moesson, 1982. Orig. limp coloured glossy wrappers. 207pp. Black/white ills., in text and full-page, incl. portraits, after original photographs, ills. after drawings in text, some full-page plans of japanese internment camps on Java, glossary indonesian/japanese-dutch, author's portrait and a small sketch-map of the Indonesian Archipelago on lower outer wrapper, with a dutch language synopsis Recollections of a dutch-indonesian civil servant, in which author describes his renewed visit to Indonesia, 'a sentimental journey', pp. 9-77; the second part, pp. 78-198 is, for the greater part, a description of author's stay in various japanese civil internment-camps during the occupation of Indonesia 1942-1945, as Kesilir, Banjoebiroe and Bandoeng. Very good copy.

Keywords: recollections biography history civil service japanese camps internment kesilir banjoebiroe bandoeng java pacific war occupations colonialism indonesia southeast asia