Bandoeng                   Soekamiskin                 West-Java

 

                                                                                                                                                                         July 2, 2011

Camp Location

The Soekamiskin prison was about 8 kilometers east of Bandoeng, on the Groote Postweg.

 

Japanese Camp Commander

Minami

 

Camp Guards

Native prison staff

 

Camp Leader

Mr. H. J. Spit

 

Transports (source: Atlas Japanse Kampen)

Date

Arrived from

Transferred to

Number

in

transport

Total

number

in camp

Individual

type

 Mar xx ‘42(1)

Surrounding Areas  (2)

 

700

 

m (3)

 Apr. 16, 1942

 

Bat: 10e Batal

 

 

m (4)

 Aug. xx, 1943

 

Ngawi: Benteng

100

 

m

 Sep. xx, 1943

Peka: Gevangenis

 

 

 

m (5)

 Sep. xx, 1943

Ngawi

 

150

 

m (6)

 Oct. xx, 1943

 

Bat: Struiswijk

 

 

m

 Feb. 15, 1944

 

Tjim: 4e en 9e Batal

100

 

m

 Feb. 15, 1944

 

Band : 15e Batal

 

 

m

 Mar. xx, 1944

Bat: Tjipinang

 

300

 

m

 July xx, 1944

 

Poer: Gevangenis

80

 

m

 Jan. xx, 1945

Surrounding Areas 

 

166

 

b (7)

 Feb. xx, 1945

Bat: Tjipinang

 

 

 

m

 Mar. 10, 1945

 

Bat: Glodok

166

 

b (8)

 Aug. 23, 1945

 

 

 

?

m

Abbreviations / Notes

b=boys, m=men

Band=Bandoeng, Bat=Batavia, Peka=Pekalongan, Poer=Poerwokerto, Tjim=Tjimahi; Batal=Bataljon

(1) And during the month of April 1942.

(2) From the Bandoeng area and the Preanger region.

(3) Senior officials, prominent individuals.

(4) Among which was the Governor-General.
(5) Government officials from the Pekalongan area.

(6) Government officials from the Ngawi area.
(7) Of Indo-European origin.

(8) The same group that was imprisoned in Soekamiskin in January, 1945.

 

Operations
Until the end of November, 1942, Soekamiskin operated as a lockdown prison.  Subsequently, the prison was run as a camp and prisoners were granted more freedoms (Gantvoort).

 

References

Alberts, A. - Een kolonie is ook maar een mens, 1989, pp. 95-99

Beekhuis, H. et al – Atlas Bersiapkampen, 2009, p. 79 (events during the Bersiap period)

Bouwer, Jan - Het vermoorde land, 1988, pp. 250-251, 260, 321

Dulm, J. van et al - Atlas Japanse Kampen, Volume I, 2000, p. 123

Gantvoort, J.Th - Jan Verboom 1891-1956, Moesson magazine 35/12 (February 1, 1991), pp. 4, 20

Jackson, Daphne - Java Nightmare, 1979

Jong, L. de - Het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden in WOII, Volume 11B, 1985, pp. 483-486, 746, 839, 860

Jong, L. de - The Collapse of a Colonial Society, 2002 (translation of a part of Volume 11B)

Leedekerker, Jacques en Hans Liesker - Voorman in verzet en boei, 1999; privately published

Liesker, H.A.M. - Je denk, ken niet maar ken!!, St. Jongens Japanse Kampen, 1997, pp. 25-28

Pater Tellema S.J. - Brief, Archief Ned. Prov. Jezuiëten (March 14, 1944 - September 7, 1945) p. 2

Pater Noyons S.J. - Brief, Archief Ned. Prov. Jezuiëten (March 14, 1944 – September 7, 1945) p. 65

Schoorel, A.F. - Mensen onder druk, 1986, p. 15

Voskuil, R.P.G.A. - Bandoeng, beeld van een stad, 1996, pp. 77, 81

Wertheim, Wim en Hetty W. - Vier wendingen in ons bestaan, 1991, p. 15

 

Photographs / Drawings:

Diessen, J.R. van en R.P.G.A.Voskuil - Boven Indië, 1993, p. 85 (aerial photo)

Dulm, J. van et al - Atlas Japanse Kampen, Volume I, 2000, p. 123 (aerial photo)

 

Camp Map

Beekhuis, H. et al – Atlas Bersiapkampen, 2009, p. 80 (location on area map)

Dulm, J. van et al - Atlas Japanse Kampen, Volume II, 2002, p. 104

 

 

 

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