Semarang Gedangan Central-Java

February 18, 2011

Alternate Camp Names

“Kloosterkamp Gedangan” (Gedangan Convent-camp); Busho III Camp 1 (per Japanese administration)

Camp Location

The Gedangan Convent (girls' division of the European orphanage of the Franciscan Sisters of Heythuysen) was located on Kloosterstraat (“Convent Street”) in the northeast section of the city of Semarang. This structure is shown on the Semarang city map in the “Stedenatlas van Nederlands-Indië" (City Maps of the Dutch East Indies) - number 98. The camp was established within the convent (hence the name “Convent-camp”).

Japanese Camp Commanders

Hasegawa (April 1944 to October 1944), Nagata (October 1944 to April 1945),

Hasegawa (April 1945 to August 1945)

Dutch Camp Leaders

Mrs. J. J. Lagro (October 1943 to December 1944), Mrs. L. Beets (December 1944 to June 1945)

Transports (source: Atlas Japanse Kampen)

Date	Arrived from	Transferred to	Number in transport	Total number in camp	Individual type
Oct 23, 1943	Soer: Darmowijk		600		w,ch
Oct 26, 1943	Soer: Darmowijk		500		w,ch
Oct 29, 1943	Soer: Darmowijk		200	1300	w,ch
Jan 6, 1944		Sem: Halmaheira	5		b
Feb 1, 1944	Soer: Darmowijk		860	2150	w,ch
Feb 25, 1944		Semarang (1)	10		w (2)
Mar 12, 1944	Soer: Darmowijk		200	2350	w,ch
Mar xx, 1944	Pasoeroean		100	2450	w,ch
May 6, 1944		Buit: Kota Paris	10		w,ch
June 8, 1944		Amb: Ambarawa 8	150		w,ch
June 8, 1944		Amb: Ambarawa 9	250	2050	w,ch
June 11, ‘44	Soer: Hoogendorplaan		35		b,m (3)
July 5, 1944	Soer: Hoogendorplaan		16		m (3)
July 11, 1944	Tjepoe		21		m (3)
July 20, 1944	Kempeitai		4		sm
July 28, 1944	Soer: Hoogendorplaan		3		w (4)
July 31, 1944	Soer: Hoogendorplaan		18		m,w,ch (5)
Aug 7, 1944	Tjim: 4e en 9e Bat		2		m (6)
Sept 6, 1944	Soer: Hoogendorplaan		6	2100	m,w,ch (5)
Sept 11, 1944		Sem: Bangkong	233		b,m
Sept 11, 1944	Sem: Bangkong		247		w,ch
Nov 15, 1944		Sem: Bangkong	2		m (3)
Dec 1, 1944	Surrounding areas		6		w (7)
Dec 7, 1944		Released	6	2100	w (8)
Jan 16, 1945	Soer: Hoogendorplaan		19		w (3)
May 5, 1945		Sem: Halmaheira	600		w,ch
May 6, 1945		Sem: Halmaheira	650		w,ch
May 7, 1945		Sem: Lampersari	800	0 (9)	w,ch

Abbreviations / Notes

b=boys, ch=children, m=men, n=nuns, om=old men, w=women, sm=sick men;

Amb=Ambarawa, Band=Bandoeng, Bat=Batavia, Buit=Buitenzorg, Sem=Semarang

4e en 9e Bat=4e en 9e Bataljon

(1) for forced prostitution

(2) young women

(3) former workers from the work-camp section of Van Hoogendorplaan (in Soerabaja)

(4) former workers of Norwegian descent

(5) former workers with their families

(6) physicians

(7) through Dec 6, 1944; of European descent

(8) of Eurasian descent

(9) up to Mar 1, 1944, a total of 9 deaths; from Mar 1, 1944 to May 7, 1945 a total of 59 deaths

References

Barentz-Drost, Marga - Kimura's kinderen, 1995, pg 27-38

Beekhuis, H. et al - Japanse burgerkampen in Nederlands-Indië, Volume 1, 4th ed., pg 48-49 (priv. publ.)

Dulm, J. van et al - Atlas Japanse Kampen, Volume I, 2000, pg 135; Volume II, 2002, pg 112

Groenou-van der Ent, W.C.H. - Bidden onder de lappen, 1995 (privately published)

Keizer-Heuzeveldt, H.E. - En de lach keerde terug, 1982, pg 27-43

Wijngaard, Maria - De niet-verloren jaren, 1972 (poetry)

Photographs / Drawings

Barentz-Drost, Marga - Kimura's kinderen, 1995

Brommer, B. et al. - Semarang, beeld van een stad, 1995, pg 123, 131

Dulm, J. van et al - Atlas Japanse Kampen, Volume I, 2000, pg 135

Camp Map

Beekhuis, H. et al - Japanse burgerkampen in Nederlands-Indië, Volume 1, 4th ed., pg 48 (priv. publ.)

Dulm, J. van et al - Atlas Japanse Kampen, Volume I, 2000, pg 135; Volume II, 2002, pg 112

Rosters & Death Rolls

Groenou-van der Ent, W.C.H. - Rosters for the 21 camp residential units ("hans")

Wiessner, H. – Death roll, February 1944 – May 1945 (61 individuals)

Rosters

Total Camp

By Residential Unit

Death Roll

Chronologically

Alphabetical

Gedangan Camp Map

Index Camps on Java