Author: KEMPERMAN, J. (COMPILER),
Title: De Japanse bezetting in dagboeken, Tjideng. [Eerste druk/first edn.].
Description: Amsterdam, Bert Bakker, 2002. Stout 8°., original coloured and illustrated limp glossy wrappers. 435pp. Frontispiece, sketch-map of Java, ills. after drawings by former Tjideng inmates, after photographs and reproductions of official documents & archivalia, notes to text, bibliography, glossary indonesian-dutch, japanese (romanized)-dutch and slang as spoken by inmates, register of geographical and personal names, biographical notes to keepers of diaries reproduced, full-page plan of Tjideng-camp with key printed on opposite page, table of contents, synopsis on lower outer wrapper. [De Japanse bezetting in dagboeken, series]. After a general introduction describing the general situation at the beginning of the japanese occupation of dutch colonial Indonesia, extensive information, primarily taken from personal diaries, is supplied on a variety of subject dealing with the Japanese concentration camp for females, Tjideng on Java, e.g. inmates and physical features of camp Tjideng, camp organization (japanese and korean guards assisted by some 100 men Heiho, or indonesian guards, and the commander Sonei Keinichi, successor to Kono), general camp-life, mental disturbances, transports to and fro, european camp organization and japanese staff, treatment of inmates by japanese guards, nutrition, deficiency and material situation, health and medical treatment, labour, education, leisura and religious matters, thoughts of life after internment, personal relations, external contacts, messages and rumours about the war, &c. A review of great historical value. Very fine copy.

Keywords: pacific war japanese camps internment females children tjideng java history occupation sonei kondo colonialism indonesia southeast asia java internment inmates