Soerabaja Darmo-wijk East-Java

February 21, 2011

Alternate Camp Names

“De Wijk” (The District), “Het Witte Dorp” (The White Village), “Darmo”

Camp Location

The internment camp "Darmo-wijk" was established within a residential district in the extreme south of

Soerabaja, adjacent to the European cemetery, Kembang Koening. Entrance to the camp was on the east side,

near Coen Boulevard. The camp was closed off from the outside world on March 13, 1943 (maybe even earlier?).

Japanese Camp Commander

Takahashi

Camp Guards

Native police staff

Dutch Camp Leaders

Mrs. Borgers, Mrs. A.C.Vreede-van Stolk

Transports (source: Atlas Japanse Kampen)

Date	Arrived from	Transferred to	Number in transport	Total number in camp	Individual type
Nov xx, 1942	Surrounding Areas (2)		6000		w,ch (1)
Nov 21, 1942		Soer: Werfstraat	20	6000	b
Sept 24, 1943		Moen: Moentilan	686		w,ch (3)
Sept 29, 1943		Moen: Moentilan	700		w,ch (3)
Sept 30, 1943	Surrounding Areas (2)		2000	6600	w,ch (4)
Oct 4, 1943		Moen: Moentilan	700		w,ch (3)
Oct 22, 1943		Sem: Gedangan	600		w,ch
Oct 25, 1943		Sem: Gedangan	500		w,ch
Oct 28, 1943		Sem: Gedangan	200		w,ch
Oct 28, 1943		Amb: Ambarawa 9	497		w,ch
Dec 11, 1943		Soer: Boeboetan	20	4000	b
Jan 31, 1944		Sem: Gedangan	850		w,ch
Feb 2, 1944		Sem: Halmaheira	900		w,ch
Mar 11, 1944		Sem: Halmaheira	248		w,ch
Mar 11, 1944		Sem: Gedangan	200		w,ch
Mar 11, 1944		Sem: Bangkong	100		w,ch
Mar 11, 1944		Sem: Lampersari	250		w,ch
Mar 12, 1944		Sem: Karangpanas	458		w,ch,om
Mar 17, 1944		Tang: LOG	580		w,ch
Apr 24, 1944		Band: Tjihapit	50		w
Apr 27, 1944		Sem: Lampersari	120		w
		Deceased	40	0	w, ch

Abbreviations / Notes

b=boys, ch=children, om=old men, w=women

Amb=Ambarawa, Band=Bandoeng, Moen=Moentilan, Sem=Semarang, Soer=Soerabaja, Tang=Tangerang

(1) from November 1942 to January 1943

(2) city of Soerabaja and surrounding areas

(3) of naval personnel

(4) of Indo-European descent

References

Barentz-Drost, Marga - Kimura’s kinderen, 1994

Beekhuis, H. e.a. – Japanse burgerkampen in Nederlands-Indië, Volume 2, pg 101-102 (priv. publ.)

Broeshart, A.C. - Soerabaja, Beeld van een stad, 1994, pg 41

Brugmans, I.J. - Nederlands-Indië onder Japanse bezetting, pg 386-387

Dulm, J. van e.a. – Atlas Japanse Kampen, Volume I, 2000, pg 171-172, Volume II, 2002, pg 142

Fenton Huie, Shirley – The Forgotten Ones: Women and Children under Nippon, 1992

Groenou-van der Ent, W.C.H. van - Bidden onder de lappen, privately published, 1995, pg 29-33

Jong, L. de - Het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden in WOII, Volume 11B, 1985, pg 350

Keizer-Heuzeveldt, H.E. - En de lach keerde terug, 1982, pg 22-26, pg 112

Thomson, Eliza - Setengah mati, 1975, pg 22-37

Photographs / Drawings

Claassen, Rob en Joke van Grootheest - Getekend, 1995, pg 105-107

Dulm, J. van e.a. – Atlas Japanse Kampen, Volume I, 2000, pg 173 (aerial photo), Volume II, pg 100

Camp Map

Beekhuis, H. e.a. – Japanse burgerkampen in Nederlands-Indië, Volume 2, pg 102 (priv. publ.)

Dulm, J. van e.a. – Atlas Japanse Kampen, Volume I, 2000, pg 172, Volume II, 2002, pg 143

Darmo-wijk Camp Map

Index Camps on Java