kampen East-Indies camps
Prison in Padang
Town:
Padang
District:
Westcoast of Sumatra
Region:
Sumatra
Location:
Padang is on the west coast of Sumatra. The prison was on Moeara Goeroen.
function:
From 18 March 1942 to 17 June 1942 this location served as a prisoner of war camp
Other name:
Nieuwe gevangenis, De Boei
Internees:
prisoners of war
Number of internees:
800
Information:
On February 15th 1942, shortly before the fall of Singapore, approximately 800 British-Indies and Australian military personnel were deployed to Sumatra. They could not be evacuated. At the beginning of March they were accused of desertion and mutiny and disarmed by the Dutch-Indies government and interned in the KNIL encampment in Padang. After the Japanese invasion on March 17th they were put into the prison. Between the beginning of April and the middle of July they were taken in various transports to the Unie Kampong camp along with 100 Dutch prisoners of war from Padang and 200 Dutch prisoners of war from Fort De Kock.
Guards:
Native prison personnel
From 07 April 1942 to 18 October 1943 this location served as a civilian camp
Other name:
Nieuwe gevangenis, De Boei
Internees:
men and boys
Number of internees:
1.000
Number of deceased:
7 (at least)
Information:
From April 1942, in addition to prisoners of war, civilian men from in and around Padang were also interned in the Padang prison. On 17 and 18 October they were transferred to the men’s camp in Bangkinang, except eight who remained behind due to illness. From 19 October women and children who had already been interned in Padang or the general area were also brought to the prison. There were also, in separate cells, 59 Moluccan ex-KNIL military personnel, imprisoned under suspicion of resistance and other illegal activities. The circumstances and treatment in the prison were bad. The prison was built to hold approximately 600 detainees, but there were far more internees held there.
Commendant:
J. Bouscha; kpt. Sugibayashi Takeo (algemeen, mannen)
Guards:
Native prison personnel
Camp leaders:
drs. G.A. Bosselaar; F.F. Anema; J.L. Barkey; drs. G. van Brakel; ir. W.J.R. Lanzing; J.J. Mekel; mgr. L.T. Brans
Literature:
Bos, H. van den, Mannenkampen Padang en Bangkinang (Sumatra's Westkust), 1942-1945 (Zoetermeer 2006-2)
Horn-van Raalten, M. van, Zonsopgang en -ondergang in Padang en Bangkinang. Gedenkboek 1942-1945 [1997])
Kuyl, A., Opgeborgen bij de evenaar. Het leven in 4 Japanse burgerinterneringskampen voor mannen op Sumatra ('s-Gravenpolder 1984) Gonzaga, M., "De Congregatie en de oorlog. I. Onze fraters van Padang", Verleden en heden van de Congregatie der Fraters van Tilburg 1946) p. 3-55
Horn-van Raalten, M. van, Zonsopgang en -ondergang in Padang en Bangkinang. Gedenkboek 1942-1945 [1997])
Kuyl, A., Opgeborgen bij de evenaar. Het leven in 4 Japanse burgerinterneringskampen voor mannen op Sumatra ('s-Gravenpolder 1984) Gonzaga, M., "De Congregatie en de oorlog. I. Onze fraters van Padang", Verleden en heden van de Congregatie der Fraters van Tilburg 1946) p. 3-55
From 19 October 1943 to 15 December 1943 this location served as a civilian camp
Other name:
Nieuwe gevangenis, De Boei
Internees:
women and children
Number of internees:
2.350
Number of deceased:
7 (at least)
Information:
On 18 October 1943, all of the men and boys interned in the Padang prison, except 8 who were sick, were taken to the men’s camp at Bangkinang. On October 19th, the women and children who had been interned in Padang or the general area were brought to the prison. From 30 October there were also, in separate cells, 59 Moluccan ex-KNIL military personnel, imprisoned under suspicion of resistance and other illegal activities. The circumstances and treatment in the prison were bad. The prison was built to hold approximately 600 detainees, but in the period October-December there were nearly 2,350 women and children packed into the prison. Between the beginning of November and mid-December the women and children were taken with various transports to the women’s camp in Bangkinang.
Commendant:
J. Bouscha; kpt. Sugibayashi Takeo (algemeen, mannen); sgt.-maj. Nakamo Mokotji (vrouwen en kinderen)
Guards:
Native prison personnel
Camp leaders:
mw. H.C.A. Holle-van Erp; mw. A. Huijsmans; mw. T.E.L. Hanedoes-Halfhide
Literature:
Bos, H. van den, Mannenkampen Padang en Bangkinang (Sumatra's Westkust), 1942-1945 (Zoetermeer 2006-2)
Ouden-Hille, M.H. den, Ik wou dat ik een vlinder was. Mijn jeugd op Sumatra. Van Fort de Kock tot Bangkinang (Franeker 1983)
Holle-van Erp, H.C.A., T.E.L. Hanedoes-Halfhide, A. Huijsmans, Report of the internment years at the camps in Padang and Bangkinang of women and children on Sumatra's West-Coast during the Japanese occupation of the Netherlands East Indies (07 April 1942-22 August 1945) (Zoetermeer [2007])
Holle-van Erp, H.C.A., T.E.L. Hanedoes-Halfhide, A. Huijsmans, Verslag van de interneringsjaren tijdens de Japanse bezetting van Nederlands-Indië, van ter Sumatra's Westkust geïnterneerde vrouwen en kinderen, in kampen te Padang en Bangkinang (7 april 1942-22 augustus 1945) ([1989] [Zoetermeer])
Bos, H. van den, Verslag van de interneringsjaren tijdens de Japanse bezetting van Nederlands-Indië, van ter Sumatra's Westkust geïnterneerde vrouwen en kinderen, in kampen te Padang en Bangkinang (7 april 1942-22 augustus 1945) ([1998] [Zoetermeer])
Horn-van Raalten, M. van, Zonsopgang en -ondergang in Padang en Bangkinang. Gedenkboek 1942-1945 [1997]) Gonzaga, M., "De Congregatie en de oorlog. I. Onze fraters van Padang", Verleden en heden van de Congregatie der Fraters van Tilburg 1946) p. 3-55
Beudell, A.M., Children of war (New York 1976)
Ouden-Hille, M.H. den, Ik wou dat ik een vlinder was. Mijn jeugd op Sumatra. Van Fort de Kock tot Bangkinang (Franeker 1983)
Holle-van Erp, H.C.A., T.E.L. Hanedoes-Halfhide, A. Huijsmans, Report of the internment years at the camps in Padang and Bangkinang of women and children on Sumatra's West-Coast during the Japanese occupation of the Netherlands East Indies (07 April 1942-22 August 1945) (Zoetermeer [2007])
Holle-van Erp, H.C.A., T.E.L. Hanedoes-Halfhide, A. Huijsmans, Verslag van de interneringsjaren tijdens de Japanse bezetting van Nederlands-Indië, van ter Sumatra's Westkust geïnterneerde vrouwen en kinderen, in kampen te Padang en Bangkinang (7 april 1942-22 augustus 1945) ([1989] [Zoetermeer])
Bos, H. van den, Verslag van de interneringsjaren tijdens de Japanse bezetting van Nederlands-Indië, van ter Sumatra's Westkust geïnterneerde vrouwen en kinderen, in kampen te Padang en Bangkinang (7 april 1942-22 augustus 1945) ([1998] [Zoetermeer])
Horn-van Raalten, M. van, Zonsopgang en -ondergang in Padang en Bangkinang. Gedenkboek 1942-1945 [1997]) Gonzaga, M., "De Congregatie en de oorlog. I. Onze fraters van Padang", Verleden en heden van de Congregatie der Fraters van Tilburg 1946) p. 3-55
Beudell, A.M., Children of war (New York 1976)
From 18 May 1944 to 19 May 1944 this location served as a prisoner of war camp
Other name:
Nieuwe gevangenis, De Boei
Internees:
prisoners of war
Number of internees:
1.937
Information:
On May 18th 1944, 1,937 prisoners of war from the 10th Battalion Encampment in Batavia arrived in Padang. They were housed in the prison, to be taken the next day to Pakanbaroe and put to work on the railway line there.
Literature:
Hovinga, H., Op dood spoor. Het drama van de Pakan Baroe-spoorweg 1943-1945 (Franeker 2009-5)
Schoonenberg, B., De poorten der hel. Van Batavia tot Pakan Baroe, veertig maanden slavenarbeid in Japanse gevangenkampen 1942-1945 (Bussum 1978)
Hovinga, H., The Sumatra railroad. Final destination Pakan Baroe, 1943-1945 (Leiden 2010)
Schoonenberg, B., De poorten der hel. Van Batavia tot Pakan Baroe, veertig maanden slavenarbeid in Japanse gevangenkampen 1942-1945 (Bussum 1978)
Hovinga, H., The Sumatra railroad. Final destination Pakan Baroe, 1943-1945 (Leiden 2010)
See also::
From 19 September 1944 to 22 September 1944 this location served as a prisoner of war camp
Other name:
Nieuwe gevangenis, De Boei
Internees:
prisoners of war
Number of internees:
723
Information:
On September 16th 1944, approximately 4,200 romushas and 2,300 prisoners of war left the 10th Battalion encampment in Batavia aboard the Junyo Maru bound for Padang. Two days later, when the ship was even with Benkoelen, it was torpedoed by the British submarine HMS Tradewind, killing approximately 5,600 romushas and prisoners of war. The survivors were pulled from the sea by two small escorting Japanese warships, and taken to Padang. From 19 to 22 September they were held, without any care for the sick or injured, in the Padang prison. On 22 September they were taken to Railway Camp 3 near Taratakboeloeh, 17 kilometres south of Pakanbaroe.
Literature:
Hovinga, H., Op dood spoor. Het drama van de Pakan Baroe-spoorweg 1943-1945 (Franeker 2009-5)
Hovinga, H., The Sumatra railroad. Final destination Pakan Baroe, 1943-1945 (Leiden 2010)
Hovinga, H., The Sumatra railroad. Final destination Pakan Baroe, 1943-1945 (Leiden 2010)
See also::
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