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Jaarmarkt Terrain in Soerabaja

Town:

Soerabaja

District:

East Java

Region:

Java

Location:

Soerabaja is on East Java, opposite the island of Madoera. The Jaarmarkt terrain was in the Ketabang district of the city and had its main entrance on Cannalaan in the city center.

function:

From 09 March 1942 to 27 April 1943 this location served as a prisoner of war camp

Internees:

prisoners of war

Number of internees:

4.628

Information:

The Soerabaian Jaarmarkt Society complex was built in 1923, and during 1942 became one of the largest gathering camps for prisoners of war in eastern Java. The prisoners of war were housed in wooden pavilions or barracks, encircled by barbed wire and gedek. From October 1942, the camp was cleared step by step. Initially the prisoners of war were taken to Batavia and Tjimahi. From April 1943 they were also taken to the labour camps on the Moluccas Islands and on Flores. At the end of the month the camp was fully cleared.

Commendant:

lt.-kol. Ashida Shoji

Main guards:

Yamagishi; Hasegawa; Mishima; Watanabe; Azuma; Oyama

Guards:

Japanese military personnel, Koreans

Camp leaders:

kpt. L. Blom; lt.-kol. Van Beusekom; kpt. R. Reyers

Literature:

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Veenstra, J.H.W. e.a., Als krijgsgevangene naar de Molukken en Flores. Relaas van een Japans transport van Nederlandse en Engelse militairen 1943-1945 ('s-Gravenhage 1982)
Kesasar, Totok, Geen saai leven. Het leven van een thee- en rubberplanter gedurende de jaren 1926-1947 [1982])
Korteweg, R., De 1000 van Amahei (Batavia [1946])
Jacobs, L., Executie van een dwangarbeid: krijgsgevangen op de Zuid-Molukken en Flores 1976)
Binnerts, C., "Alles is in orde, heeren....!" Een dagboek van het eiland Flores uit het jaar 1943 (Amsterdam 1947)
Cowling, T., My life with the Samurai (Kenthurst 1996)
Legemaate, H.J., A.J.J. Mulder en M.G.J. van Zeeland, Hr. Ms. Kruiser 'De Ruyter' 1933-1942 (Purmerend 1999)
Hamel, J.C., Soldatendominee. Ervaringen van een legerpredikant in Japanse krijgsgevangenschap (Franeker 1980-3)