Tjimahi                           Baros 5                     West-Java

                                              

                                                                                                                                                                     July 12, 2011

 

Alternate Camp Names

Prominentenkamp (VIP Camp), Camp Baros, Bamboo-Camp,

Kale-koppenkamp (Bald-heads Camp), 6th Battalion Depot Camp,

Bunsho II, Camp 5 (per Japanese administration)

 

Camp Location

This camp was located in the eastern part of Tjimahi, just south of the railroad. The camp was housed in barracks of the native militia emergency station. The bamboo barracks, approximately 27 in all, had cement floors; most had no windows, but full-length openings just below the roofline, and large doors on the end walls. The camp gave off a sinister impression: dingy barracks around a large quad, without a single tree.

The camp was surrounded by a bamboo fence (hence the name Bamboo-Camp).

 

Japanese Camp Commander

Kunimoto (May 1945 to August 1945)

 

Camp Guards

Japanese military personnel, Koreans, heihos

 

Dutch Camp Leaders

Mr. J. Bos (for all camp funtions: see Cocq d’Armaville, referenced below)

 

Transports (source: Atlas Japanse Kampen)

Date

Arrived from

Transferred to

Number

in

transport

Total

number

in camp

Indivi-dual

type

 Oct. 11, 1943

Band: Zeelandia

 

320

 

m

 Oct. 13, 1943

Band: Tjitaroemplein

 

320

 

b,m

 Oct. 14, 1943

Band: LOG

 

175

 

b,m

 Oct. 15, 1943

Band: Stella Maris

 

300

 

b,m

 Oct. 19, 1943

Band: Tjihapit/Kareës

 

200

 

b,m

 Oct. 26, 1943

Band: Palace Hotel

 

550

 

m

 Oct. 27, 1943

Band: Palace Hotel

 

300

 

m

 Oct. 30, 1943

Band: Stella Maris

 

200

 

b,m

 Dec. 8, 1943

Band: Kareës

 

70

 

b

 Feb. 15, 1944

Band: Dick de Hoog

 

550

 

b,m

 July xx, 1944

Poer: Gevangenis

 

80

3100

m

 Aug. 10, 1944

 

Band: 15e Batal

190

 

m (1)

 Sep. 12, 1944

 

Tjim: Baros 6

50

 

m

 Oct. xx, 1944

Band: Kareës

 

80

 

m

 Oct. 15, 1944

 

Tjim: Baros 6

840

 

b,m

 Oct. 25, 1944

 

Tjim: 4e en 9e Batal

1150

900

m

 Oct. 25, 1944

Band: 4e en 9e Batal

 

1500

 

b,m (2)

 Nov. 18, 1944

Sem: Bangkong

 

30

 

m

 Nov. 26, 1944

Bat: Grogol

 

150

 

b

 Nov. 28, 1944

Bat: Grogol

 

200

 

om

 Dec. 20, 1944

Tjim: Baros 6

 

20

 

b

 Apr. 8, 1945

Tjim: Baros 6

 

100

 

b

 May 5, 1945

Tjim: 4e en 9e Batal

 

30

2900

m (2)

 May 15, 1945

 

Tjim : 4e en 9e Batal

30

 

m

 July 12, 1945

 

Band : 15e Batal

500

 

b,m (3)

 Aug. 1, 1945

 

Tjitjalengka-Spoor

200

 

b,m

 Aug. 19, 1945

Tjitjalengka-Spoor

 

200

 

b,m

 Aug. 23, 1945

 

 

 

2400

b,m

Abbreviations / Notes

b=boys (age 12 and older), m=men, om=old men

Band=Bandoeng, Bat=Batavia, Poer=Poerwokerto, Sem=Semarang, Tjim=Tjimahi

Batal=Batallion; Spoor=Spoorweg (railway)

(1) Sailors

(2) Prominent individuals

(3) Workers on the Tjitjalengka railroad

Camp Conditions

Foraging        Food was picked up regularly at the Bergartillerie (Japanese warehouses): it was therefore possible to

                       meet boys or men from other camps in Tjimahi; it was thus that fathers and sons stayed in touch.

Chores          Chores consisted of working at one of the farms outside the camp (in Tjimindi and Leuwigadja),

                       doctors divided work crews into three groups: A (outside work), B (light work within the camp) and

C (exempt from any chores).

 

References

Beekhuis, H. et al – Japanse burgerkampen in Nederlands-Indië, Volume 1, 4th Edition, pp 44-45

Beekhuis, H. et al – Atlas Bersiapkampen, 2009, pp 67-68 (events during the Bersiap period)

Brugmans, I.J. – Gevangen op Java, Dagboek uit een Jappenkamp, 2004, pp 43-165 (group from Stella Maris)

Buys, Jan in H.A.M.Liesker – Je denk, ken niet maar ken!!, 1997, pp 211-230

Cocq d’Armaville, I.J.H.P. le in H.A.M.Liesker – Je denk, ken niet maar ken!!, 1997, pp 239-244

Crince le Roy, Paul in H.A.M.Liesker - Jongens in de mannenkampen te Tjimahi, 1994, pp 157-166, 169-174

Dulm, J. van et al – Atlas Japanse Kampen, Volume I, 2000, p 114; Volume II, 2002, p 94

Ee, Mick van – Boys Town, 2002, pp 31…

Elias, W.H.J. - De Japanse bezetting van Nederlands-Indië, 1990

Groot, Willem de in H.A.M.Liesker – Je denk, ken niet maar ken!!, 1997, pp 250-256

Hildesheim, I. in H.A.M.Liesker – Je denk, ken niet maar ken!!, 1997, pp 278-294

Kessel, Albert in H.A.M.Liesker – Je denk, ken niet maar ken!!, 1997, pp 295-308

Kruisheren - Bezetting en bevrijding, Bulletin Prov. St Augustinus, Speciaal, 1995, pp 39-40, 47-49

Lechner, Jan – Uit de verte, een jeugd in Indië, 2004, pp 89-101

Liesker, Hans in H.A.M.Liesker - Jongens in de mannenkampen te Tjimahi, 1994, pp 293-340, 348

Liesker, Klaas in H.A.M.Liesker - Jongens in de mannenkampen te Tjimahi, 1994, pp 95-146

Memelink, Oscar in H.A.M.Liesker - Jongens in de mannenkampen te Tjimahi, 1994, pp 357-392 (diary)

Misset, J.H. – Si Piet, 1952

Tieleman, H. en R. - Het rattevel, 1994, pp 113-116

Vermeulen, pastoor A.J. in H.A.M.Liesker – Je denk, ken niet maar ken!!, 1997, pp 453-457

Werve, Th.P. van der in H.A.M.Liesker – Je denk, ken niet maar ken!!, 1997, pp 416-419

Weijers, Gerard  in H.A.M.Liesker - Jongens in de mannenkampen te Tjimahi, 1994, pp 189-204

Woortman, Louk in H.A.M.Liesker - Jongens in de mannenkampen te Tjimahi, 1994, pp 219-250

 

Photographs / Drawings:

Beekhuis, H. et al – Atlas Bersiapkampen, 2009, p 68 (photo of barracks around Oebi-veld field, 1994)

Claassen, Rob en Joke van Grootheest - Getekend, 1995, pp 45-49

Dulm, J. van et al – Atlas Japanse Kampen, Volume I, 2000, p 113 (aerial photo)

Liesker, Hans - Je denkt, ken niet maar ken!!, 1997, p 252 (kitchen)

Liesker, H.A.M. - Jongens in de mannenkampen ..., 1994, pp 358 (barrack 22), 368 (street), 391 (photos 1991)

Nederlanders in Japanse kampen (exhibition catalog), 1976, pp 41, 43, 47

 

Camp Map

Beekhuis, H. et al – Japanse burgerkampen in Nederlands-Indië, Volume 1, 4th Edition, p 44

Beekhuis, H. et al – Atlas Bersiapkampen, 2009, p 69

Dulm, J. van et al – Atlas Japanse Kampen, Volume I, 2000, p 115

Ee, Mick van – Boys Town, 2002, p 30

Liesker, H.A.M. – Separate camp map (including characters A through Q)

 

Rosters

Ee, Mick van – Boys Town, 2002 (Han 20, 170 names)

Misset, J.H. – Si Piet, 1942 (900 names)

NN - Kamp 4+5+6 (12000 names), SAIP, OP 475 (August 1945)

 

 

Baros 5 Camp Map

 

 

Index                     Camps on Java