Bandoeng                     Kareës                    West-Java
                                                  
                                                                                                                                                                    May
10, 2011
Alternate
Camp Names
Bunsho II, Camp 3 (per Japanese
administration)
Camp Location
| 
   This camp was located in a residential
  area in the southeastern
  part of
  Bandoeng, bounded by Papandajanlaan, Tangkoeban
  Prahoelaan, Windoestraat, Galoengoenglaan, Halimoenlaan, Malabarlaan, Wajanglaan  (behind the housing
  units) and Boerangranglaan
  (behind the housing units).  | 
 
Japanese Camp Commanders
Native police, Lt. Suzuki (April 1944 to
Nov. 1944), Lt. Takahashi Ryoichi (Nov. 1944 to Dec. 1944)
Hashimoto, Yasuda, Snirakawa; with
native police staff, heihos
Dutch Camp Leaders
Mrs. R. Iterson-de Hartog
Transports (source: Atlas Japanse
Kampen)
| 
   Date  | 
  
   Arrived
  from  | 
  
   Transferred
  to  | 
  
   Number in transport  | 
  
   Total number  in camp  | 
  
   Individual type  | 
 
| 
    Dec. 4, ‘42 (1)  | 
  
   Surrounding Areas  (2)  | 
  
   | 
  
   5190  | 
  
   5190  | 
  
   w,ch,om  | 
 
| 
    July 10, 1943  | 
  
   Soek: SOG  | 
  
   | 
  
   500  | 
  
   5690  | 
  
   w,ch  | 
 
| 
    Oct. 19, 1943  | 
  
   | 
  
   Tjim: Baros 5  | 
  
   160  | 
  
   5530  | 
  
   b  | 
 
| 
    Oct. 28, 1943  | 
  
   Cheribon  | 
  
   | 
  
   42  | 
  
   5572  | 
  
   w,ch,om  | 
 
| 
    Dec. 8, 1943  | 
  
   | 
  
   Tjim: Baros 5  | 
  
   70  | 
  
   5502  | 
  
   b  | 
 
| 
   | 
  
   | 
  
   | 
  
   | 
  
   | 
  
   | 
 
| 
    July xx, 1944  | 
  
   Buitenzorg  | 
  
   | 
  
   11  | 
  
   5513  | 
  
   w,ch  | 
 
| 
    July 19, 1944  | 
  
   | 
  
   Tjim: Baros 6  | 
  
   59  | 
  
   5454  | 
  
   b,m  | 
 
| 
    Oct. 21, 1944  | 
  
   | 
  
   Band: Tjihapit  | 
  
   4  | 
  
   5450  | 
  
   w,ch  | 
 
| 
    Oct. xx, 1944  | 
  
   | 
  
   Tjim: Baros 5  | 
  
   80  | 
  
   5370  | 
  
   m  | 
 
| 
    Nov. 16, 1944  | 
  
   | 
  
   Amb: Ambarawa 9  | 
  
   250  | 
  
   5120  | 
  
   w,ch  | 
 
| 
    Nov. 16, 1944  | 
  
   | 
  
   Amb: Ambarawa 7  | 
  
   350  | 
  
   4770  | 
  
   w,ch  | 
 
| 
    Nov. 17, 1944  | 
  
   | 
  
   Amb: Banjoebiroe 10  | 
  
   600  | 
  
   4170  | 
  
   w,ch  | 
 
| 
    Nov. 23, 1944  | 
  
   | 
  
   Tjim: 4e en 9e Bat  | 
  
   90  | 
  
   4080  | 
  
   sm  | 
 
| 
    Nov. 27, 1944  | 
  
   | 
  
   Band: Bloemenkamp  | 
  
   252  | 
  
   3828  | 
  
   b  | 
 
| 
    Nov. 27, 1944  | 
  
   | 
  
   Buit: Kota Paris  | 
  
   250  | 
  
   3578  | 
  
   w,ch  | 
 
| 
    Nov. 27, 1944  | 
  
   | 
  
   Buit: Kedoengbadak  | 
  
   100  | 
  
   3478  | 
  
   w,ch  | 
 
| 
    Nov. 27, 1944  | 
  
   | 
  
   Bat: Grogol  | 
  
   500  | 
  
   2978  | 
  
   w,ch  | 
 
| 
    Nov. 28, 1944  | 
  
   | 
  
   Buit: Kedoengbadak  | 
  
   350  | 
  
   2628  | 
  
   w,ch  | 
 
| 
    Nov. 28, 1944  | 
  
   | 
  
   Bat: Grogol  | 
  
   500  | 
  
   2128  | 
  
   w,ch  | 
 
| 
    Nov. 29, 1944  | 
  
   | 
  
   Bat: Tjideng  | 
  
   900  | 
  
   1228  | 
  
   w,ch  | 
 
| 
    Nov. 29, 1944  | 
  
   | 
  
   Buit: Kedoengbadak  | 
  
   710  | 
  
   518  | 
  
   w,ch  | 
 
| 
    Dec. 8, ‘44 (3)  | 
  
   | 
  
   Band: Tjihapit  | 
  
   285  | 
  
   233  | 
  
   w,ch  | 
 
| 
    Dec. 21, 1944  | 
  
   | 
  
   Band: Tjihapit  | 
  
   128  | 
  
   105  | 
  
   w,ch (4)  | 
 
| 
   | 
  
   | 
  
   Deceased  | 
  
   105  | 
  
   0  | 
  
   w,ch  | 
 
Abbreviations / Notes
b=boys (11 years and older), ch=children, m=men, om=old men, sm=sick men, w=women 
Amb=Ambarawa, Band=Bandoeng, Bat=
SOG=SOG-Meisjeshuis, 4e en 9e Bat=4e en
9e Bataljon
(1) Up to
and including 
(2) Bandoeng, Tjioemboeleuit,
Lembang, Garoet, Tasikamalja, Tegal, Cheribon, Soekaboemi, Buitenzorg
(3) And December 9, 1944
(4) Including 7 sick women
Deaths
There were a total of 105 deaths.
References
Beekhuis, H., et al – Japanse
burgerkampen in Nederlands-Indië, Volume 1, 4th Edition, pg 40, 41
Biessen-Dohmen, Mieke - De klok,
1995
Doorn, Iens van - Geluk is als
een vogel, 1981, pg 82
Dulm, J. van, et al – Atlas
Japanse Kampen, Volume I, 2000, pg 120-121; Volume II, 2002, pg 101
Fenton Huie, Shirley - The
forgotten ones (interviews), 1992; Vergeten, 1995
Graaff, Nell de - We survived: a Mother's story ..., 1989, pg 28-53
Jong, L. de - Het Koninkrijk der
Nederlanden in WOII, Volume 11B, 1985, pg 349
Jong,
L. de - The Collapse of a Colonial Society, 2002, pg 104 (translation Volume
11B)
Kessel, Albert in H.A.M.Liesker –
Je denk, ken niet maar ken! 1997, pg 295-296
Raalte-Geel, Henriette van - Mogen wij altijd in dit kamp blijven? 1998
Renes-Bolding, M.A.M. - Ik kom
terug zegt Loes, 1947
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Wallenburg-Laban, A. van – Personal
communications
Photographs
/ Drawings
Dulm, J. van, et al – Atlas Japanse Kampen, Volume I, 2000, pg 121; Volume
II, 2002, pg 103
Camp
Map
Beekhuis, H., et al – Japanse burgerkampen in Nederlands-Indië, Volume 1, 4th
Edition, pg 40
Dulm, J. van, et al – Atlas
Japanse Kampen, Volume I, 2000, pg 121