Author: MANDERS, JO. [J.E. VAN DIJK-MANDERS, COMPILER],
Title: De lach uit leed geboren. Herinneringen uit de Japanse concentratiekampen voor vrouwen en kinderen. Opgespoord en gebundeld. [Eerste druk/first edition].
Description: Rijsbergen, J. van Dijk-Manders (cop.), [..], 1969. Original cloth,, title in gilt on front boards and spine, dustjacet, designed by Henk Coolen. 262pp. text-ills.,mainly after drawings by internees, facsims. of authentic documents, table of contents, name-list of contributors at end. RIOD, 39. Extensive Collection of authentic eye-witness reports of some 253 male and female internees and p.o.w., supplying personal information on their stay in a variety of japanese concentrationcamps in the all over dutch colonial Indonesia under the japanese occupation during the Pacific war. Very good copy, WITH dustjacket.

Keywords: japanese occupation camplife internment p.o.w. concentrationcamps observation recollection egodocument history pacific war history colonialism indonesia southeast asia