Tjideng internment camp
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Tjideng was a Japanese-run internment camp for women and children during World War II, in the former Dutch East Indies (present-day Indonesia).
Wikidata facts
- Country
- Dutch East Indies
- Located in
- Jakarta
- Image
- The Allied Occupation of Java, 1945 SE4860.jpg
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- data.niod.nl/WO2_Thesaurus/kampen/3796
- uses
- Cideng
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Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- Camp Tjideng
- Report by Lieutenant-Colonel Read-Collins
- Family reunions
- Aftermath
- Repatriation to the Netherlands
- In the literature
- Dutch celebrities interned at Tjideng
- References
- External links
Tjideng was a Japanese-run internment camp for women and children during World War II, in the former Dutch East Indies (present-day Indonesia).
The Empire of Japan began the invasion of the Dutch East Indies on 10 January 1942. During the Japanese occupation, which lasted until the end of the war in September 1945, people from European descent were sent to internment camps. This included mostly Dutch people, but also Americans, British and Australians. The Japanese camps were described by ex-prisoners as concentration camps or passive extermination camps; due to the large-scale and consistent withholding of food and medicine, large numbers of prisoners died over time.
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