Soerabaja                 Werfstraat                 East-Java

 

                                                                                                                                                                        March 24, 2011

Alternate Camp Name

Kalisosok-gevangenis (prison)

 

Camp Location

The Werfstraat Prison was on Werfstraat (street).
This prison was used throughout the occupation period for the detention of both men and women. New inter­nees came and went continuously; some were detained briefly while others were held for longer periods. Listed below are just some of the rotations.

 

Japanese Camp Commander

Tukui (February 1944 to August 1945)

 

Camp Guards

Native prison staff

 

Transports (source: Atlas Japanse Kampen)

Date

Arrived from

Transferred to

Number

in

transport

Total

number

in camp

Individual

type

Mar. 10, ‘42 (1)

Surround Areas 

 

50

 

w,ch (2)

Dec. xx, 1943

 

Tang: Tanahtinggi

50

 

w,ch

 

 

 

 

 

 

Aug. 31, 1942

Surround Areas 

 

163

163

w,ch

Mar. 17, 1944

 

Tang: LOG

163

0

w,ch

 

 

 

 

 

 

July xx, ‘42 (3)

Surround Areas 

 

 

 

b,m

July xx, 1942

 

Kesilir

 

 

b,m

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mar. xx, 1942

Surround Areas (4)

 

20

 

m (5)

July xx, 1942

 

Released

5

 

m (6)

Oct. xx, 1942

Surround Areas 

 

100

 

m (2)

Nov. 21, 1942

Soer: Darmo-wijk

 

20

 

b

Feb. xx, 1943

Surround Areas (7)

 

650

 

b,m

Mar. xx, 1943

 

Ngawi: Fort vdBosch

100

 

m (2)

May 21, 1943

 

Kesilir

544

 

b,m

June xx, 1943

Soerabaja-stad

 

30

 

m,w,ch (8)

Feb. xx, 1944

 

Band: 15e Bataljon

100

 

m

Feb. xx, 1944

 

Amb: Ambarawa

12

 

w,ch

Mar. 26, 1944

 

Band: 15e Bataljon

31

 

m

Abbreviations / Notes

b=boys, ch=children, m=men, w=women

Amb=Ambarawa, Band=Bandoeng,  Soer=Soerabaja, Tang=Tangerang

Surround Areas=Surrounding Areas

(1) And the following week

(2) Of British and American descent

(3) Covering the period July to September 1942; staying for one or two days (gathered for transfer to Kesilir)

(4) Central and East-Java

(5) Senior officials and political prisoners

(6) Dutch camp leaders for Kesilir

(7) Major raids in the city of Soerabaja and surrounding areas

(8) Former Nippon workers and their families

 

References

Beekhuis, H. et al – Atlas Bersiapkampen, 2009, p 195 (events during the Bersiap period)

Boer, Jack - Koninklijke olie in Nederlands-Indië, 1997, pp 222 - 230

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

Dulm, J. van et al - Atlas Japanse Kampen, Volume I, 2000, p 169

 

Photographs / Drawings

Beekhuis, H. et al – Atlas Bersiapkampen, 2009, p 195 (frontal view)

Immerzeel, B.R. en F.van Esch - Verzet in Nederlands-Indië, SDU 1993, p 95

Moesson magazine 32/1 (July 15, 1987), p 6

 

Camp Map

Boer, Jack – Koninklijke olie in Nederlands-Indië, 1997

Beekhuis, H. et al – Atlas Bersiapkampen, 2009, p 195

 

 

Werfstraat Camp Map

 

 

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