Santo Tomas Internment Camp

Santo Tomas Internment Camp
Concentration camp
One of the principal buildings housing internees at Santo Tomas was the Education building (now UST Hospital building). Shanties and vegetable gardens can be seen near the building and the wall of the University compound is in the background.
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Coordinates	14°36′36″N 120°59′22″E / 14.61000°N 120.98944°E / 14.61000; 120.98944
Other names	Manila Internment Camp
Location	University of Santo Tomas, Manila, Japanese-occupied Philippines
Commandant	Lt. Col. Toshio Hayashi
Original use	University of Santo Tomas campus
Operational	January 1942 – February 1945
Number of inmates	more than 3,000 internees
Liberated by	U.S. Army
Notable inmates	List Roy Anthony Cutaran Bennett Frank Buckles Laura M. Cobb William Henry Donald Adolph Daniel Edward Elmer A.V.H. Hartendorp Carl Mydans Shelley Smith Mydans Josephine Nesbit Anthony J. Xydias Evelyn Witthoff Dorothy Obert David Garfield Gunnell

Santo Tomas Internment Camp, also known as the Manila Internment Camp, was the largest of several camps in the Philippines in which the Japanese interned enemy civilians, mostly Americans, in World War II. The campus of the University of Santo Tomas in Manila was utilized for the camp, which housed more than 3,000 internees from January 1942 until February 1945. Conditions for the internees deteriorated during the war and by the time of the liberation of the camp by the U.S. Army many of the internees were near death from lack of food.