Kediri                       Kawarasan                East-Java

 

                                                                                                                                                                        March 20, 2011

 

Camp Location

The Kawarasan sugar factory was about 15 kilometers east of Kediri, on a side road off the main road between Kediri and Pare. The camp consisted of two separate locations (neither location knew the other existed):

* Camp 1 was a walled compound containing the manager’s residence, two pavilions and outbuildings;

* Camp 2 consisted of employee housing facilities, thepasanggrahan” (government employee guest-house), the club-house and a school building, all fenced with gedek.

 

Japanese Camp Commander

Kobayashi

 

Camp Guards

Native police staff

 

Dutch Camp Leaders

Camp 1: Mrs. J. E. M. Kapelle-Janssen

Camp 2: Mrs. J. Eichelberg-Kappelaar

 

Transports (source: Atlas Japanse Kampen)

Date

Arrived from

Transferred to

Number

in

transport

Total

number

in camp

Individual

type

 

CAMP 1

 

 

 

 

May xx, 1943

Surrounding Areas  (1)

 

175

175

w,ch,n

Feb. 17, 1944

 

Amb: Banjoebiroe 10

175

0

w,ch

 

CAMP 2

 

 

 

 

Aug xx ‘43 (2)

Surrounding Areas  (3)

 

320

320

w,ch,n,om

Sep. 22, 1943

 

Ked: Sentono Pande

30

290

b

Feb. 17, 1944

 

Amb: Banjoebiroe 10

290

0 (4)

w,ch,om

Abbreviations / Notes

b=boys, ch=children, n=nuns, om=old men, w=women

Amb=Ambarawa, Ked=Kediri

(1) Women and children from plantations

(2) From August to October 1943

(3) Women, children and old men from plantations, nuns from Kediri

(4) Total of 4 deaths in Camp 2

 

References

Beekhuis, H. et al - Japanse burgerkampen in Nederlands-Indië, Volume 2, pp 96-97

Captain, Esther et al - Indië; een verre oorlog van dichtbij, 1995, pp 87-109 (interview with Louise de Graaff)

Dulm, J. van et al - Atlas Japanse Kampen, Volume I, 2000, p 164; Volume II, 2002, pp 140-141

Happel, Mw A. – Verslag, NIOD, IC 032.202

Koster, J. - Persoonlijke mededeling

NN – Oproep, Kawatberichten 14, nr 3 (July/August 1996), p 28

Velden, D. van, De Japanse burgerkampen, 1977, 4th Edition, 1985, p 85

 

Camp Map

Dulm, J. van et al - Atlas Japanse Kampen, Volume I, 2000, p 165; Volume II, 2002, pp 140-141

 

 

Kawarasan Camp Map

 

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