Kediri Kawarasan East-Java

March 20, 2011

Camp Location

The Kawarasan sugar factory was about 15 kilometers east of Kediri, on a side road off the main road between Kediri and Pare. The camp consisted of two separate locations (neither location knew the other existed):

* Camp 1 was a walled compound containing the manager’s residence, two pavilions and outbuildings;

* Camp 2 consisted of employee housing facilities, the “pasanggrahan” (government employee guest-house), the club-house and a school building, all fenced with gedek.

Japanese Camp Commander

Kobayashi

Camp Guards

Native police staff

Dutch Camp Leaders

Camp 1: Mrs. J. E. M. Kapelle-Janssen

Camp 2: Mrs. J. Eichelberg-Kappelaar

Transports (source: Atlas Japanse Kampen)

Date	Arrived from	Transferred to	Number in transport	Total number in camp	Individual type
	CAMP 1
May xx, 1943	Surrounding Areas (1)		175	175	w,ch,n
Feb. 17, 1944		Amb: Banjoebiroe 10	175	0	w,ch
	CAMP 2
Aug xx ‘43 (2)	Surrounding Areas (3)		320	320	w,ch,n,om
Sep. 22, 1943		Ked: Sentono Pande	30	290	b
Feb. 17, 1944		Amb: Banjoebiroe 10	290	0 (4)	w,ch,om

Abbreviations / Notes

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

Amb=Ambarawa, Ked=Kediri

(1) Women and children from plantations

(2) From August to October 1943

(3) Women, children and old men from plantations, nuns from Kediri

(4) Total of 4 deaths in Camp 2

References

Beekhuis, H. et al - Japanse burgerkampen in Nederlands-Indië, Volume 2, pp 96-97

Captain, Esther et al - Indië; een verre oorlog van dichtbij, 1995, pp 87-109 (interview with Louise de Graaff)

Dulm, J. van et al - Atlas Japanse Kampen, Volume I, 2000, p 164; Volume II, 2002, pp 140-141

Happel, Mw A. – Verslag, NIOD, IC 032.202

Koster, J. - Persoonlijke mededeling

NN – Oproep, Kawatberichten 14, nr 3 (July/August 1996), p 28

Velden, D. van, De Japanse burgerkampen, 1977, 4th Edition, 1985, p 85

Camp Map

Dulm, J. van et al - Atlas Japanse Kampen, Volume I, 2000, p 165; Volume II, 2002, pp 140-141

Kawarasan Camp Map

Index Camps on Java