Government Reformatory in Tangerang

Other name: Lands Opvoedings Gesticht
Internees: men
Number of internees: 1.540
Number of deceased: 1
Information: The Government Reformatory for boys in Tangerang was used from September 1943 as an internment location. Initially it held men and boys who, after being interned in Kesilir and Bondowoso, had spent several months in the prison in Tangerang. In February 1944 they were taken from the Reformatory to the 4th and 9th Battalions in Tjimahi. The Reformatory served thereafter from the end of March as an internment point for women and children from east Java and Tanahtinggi.
Guards: Native police personnel
Camp leaders: P.H. van den Eeckhout; J.F.G. Steyn (C. Heintz); J.W. Hollerman
Literature: Wackwitz, J.G., Kesilir juli 1942-september 1943. Rapport van de leider der kolonisatie ('s-Gravenhage 1988)

Other name: Lands Opvoedings Gesticht, Bunsho I Kamp 4
Internees: women and children
Number of internees: 1.870
Number of deceased: 28
Information: The Government Reformatory for boys was used from September 1943 as an internment location. Until February 1944 it was a men’s camp. From March 1944, women and children from all Java were held there. They had up until then been interned at the youth prison in Tanahtinggi. Later in 1944 various groups of interned women and children were exchanged between the Reformatory in Tangerang and camps in Batavia. In March and April 1945 the Reformatory was cleared and the internees taken to Camp ADEK in Batavia.
Commendant: lt. Sone Kenichi (april-juli 1944); lt. Kashara Gengo; Ide Bukichi
Main guards: Iwabuchi; Matsuda; Hagii; Ide; Nishioku; Kaneda; Matsuyama; Mitsuboshi
Guards: Native police personnel
Camp leaders: mw. A.C. Vreede-van Stolk
Literature: Chagoll, L. (L. Aldewerelt), Zes jaren en zes maanden. Herinneringen van een kind dat aan de nazi's is ontsnapt maar in Japanse kampen terecht is gekomen (Antwerpen/Bussum 1981)
Wilton van Reede, T. en A. Onderdenwijngaard, Een draad van angst. Over Japanse vrouwenkampen op Java en het leven daarna ('s-Gravenhage 1984)
Ferguson, M., Chaos ('s-Gravenhage 1983)
Ferguson, M., Mammie ik ga dood. Aantekeningen uit de Japanse tijd op Java 1942-1945 (Den Haag 1976)
Jackson, D., Nachtmerrie op Java. Het leven in de vrouwenkampen tijdens de Japanse bezetting, 1942-1945 (Baarn 1989)
Jackson, D., Java nightmare. An autobiography (Padstow 1979)
Keesing, E., Op de muur (Amsterdam 1981)
Ofeigssen-Takes, A., Wel en wee (Epe 1955)
Wertheim, W. en H. Wertheim-Gijse Weenink, Vier wendingen in ons bestaan. Indië verloren, Indonesië geboren (Breda 1991)
Claassen, R. en J. van Grootheest, Getekend. Nederlanders in Japanse kampen (Den Haag 1995)
Vas Dias, R., Kampherinneringen (Aalten [1948])
Pos, M., "Eens op Java en Sumatra ..." Het laatste reisboek over ons Indie? in zijn glorietijd (Baarn [ca. 1948])
Bakker, M., Kampherinneringen. Het leven in de jappenkampen Tangerang en Adek (Groningen 2005)

Other name: Lands Opvoedings Gesticht
Internees: men, women, and children
Information: The Government Reformatory for boys in Tangerang had functioned during the Japanese occupation from September 1943 until April 1945 as a civilian camp. At the end of October 1945 there were 67 to 87 European, Indo-European, Ambonese and Menadonese men, women and children shut up in the Reformatory. On May 22nd 1946 they were set free due to the approach of Dutch troops.