Tjihapit in Bandoeng

Other name: Bunsho II kamp 2 (met Bloemenkamp)
Internees: boys, old men, women and children
Number of internees: 13.563
Information: In the Tjihapit district, women and children were interned from November 1942. They were in the main housed in “European” houses with outbuildings, which were surrounded by barbed wire and gedek. In August 1943 the ones housed to the west of Riouwstraat had to move to the east of that street. The west part was then set up as a new camp, the Bloemen Camp (Flower Camp).
Commendant: Padma; dhr. Boenjamin; dhr. Arsad; kpt. Suzuki Susumu; lt. Takahashi Ryoichi
Main guards: Muroi; Otsuka; Hashimoto; Nada; Yashuda; Shirakawa
Guards: Native police personnel, heihos
Camp leaders: mw. W.N. Diepeveen-Lindner; mw. A.W. Droog-Hartgerink; dhr. Lagro
Literature: Valkenburg, R., Djoenkeng owari/Het appèl is afgelopen (Dordrecht 1977-2)
Tjihapit-boek. Een bundel reconstructies, bronmateriaal, herinneringen van reünisten, afbeeldingen en kaarten (Haren 1994)
Lavalije, Th. e.a., In naam van de keizer. Jongens in de kampen te Bandoeng 1942-1945/2602-2605 (Waddinxveen 1995)
Liesker, H.A.M. e.a., 2603-1945, jongens in de mannenkampen te Tjimahi, Baros 5 en 4e/9e Bat. (Waddinxveen 1993)
Oort, B. van, Tjideng reunion. A memoir of World War II on Java (Victoria 2008)
Feenstra-Bosman, A.W., Tjihapit Bandoeng, kamp Solo, Lampersari Semarang. Kampdagboek van Anneke Bosman [2002])
Bertholée, H., Kéré! Herinneringen aan het Thi-Hapitkamp 1942-1944 [ca. 1960])
Cohen Stuart-Franken, M., Van Indië tot Indonesië. Voor, in en na het kamp (Amsterdam 1947)
Schoorel, A.F. (red.), Mensen onder druk. Ervaringen van Nederlanders in Zuid-Oost Azië beleefd tijdens de oorlog met Japan, tijdens de Japanse bezetting en tijdens de jaren van confrontatie met de Indonesische nationalisten (Franeker 1986)
Roos, B., Kan-niet is dood. Kinderjaren in een Jappenkamp (Amsterdam 1989)
Vonk, C., Honderd dagen uit en thuis (Naarden-Bussum 1946)

Internees: men, women, and children
Number of internees: 10.000
Information: The Tjihapit residential district had functioned as an interment camp for women and children during the Japanese occupation. A small group of women stayed and had taken all the abandoned household goods to a small number of houses. These goods were made available by the RAPWI to the people taken to the district from the end of August. They had the right to free assistance goods from the Red Cross and RAPWI, including clothing. There was a soup kitchen and a market. During the food boycott in October and November, the food situation was bad. In December Red Cross packets arrived from Batavia. Sometimes the pemoedas cut off the camp’s water supply. The residents had essentially no money because as a result of a misunderstanding with Batavia the RAPWI allowances were not paid out. In November, each head-of-household received 200 Guilders, and each family member received 100 Guilders. Initially, due to unrest, only those with jobs were permitted to leave the camp. From 8 November 10% of the residents could leave at a time, in rotational groups. There were two elementary schools, each with five grades. Children over 14 received little or no education because they were employed by chore teams.
Literature: Berge, G. ten, Met open ogen. Gesprek met Hein ten Berge over zijn jaren in Nederlands-Indië als leraar in Moentilan en in Japanse krijgsgevangenschap (1929-1946) (Maarssen [1995])
Brugmans, I.J., Gevangen op Java. Dagboek uit een Jappenkamp, 1942-1945 (Zutphen 2004)