Tjideng | |
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 Exterior of some of the houses of Tjideng internment camp (1945). Each house accommodated as many as twenty women and children. | |
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| Country | Kingdom of the Netherlands |
| Colony | Dutch East Indies |
| City | Batavia |
| Opened | 1942 |
| Closed | 1945 |
| Founded by | Japanese Empire |
Tjideng was a Japanese-run internment camp for women and children during World War II, in the former Dutch East Indies (present-day Indonesia).
The Japanese Empire began the invasion of the Dutch East Indies on 10 January 1942. During the Japanese occupation, which lasted until the end of the war in September 1945, people from European descent were sent to internment camps. This included mostly Dutch people, but also Americans, British and Australians. The Japanese camps were described by ex-prisoners as concentration camps or passive extermination camps; due to the large-scale and consistent withholding of food and medicine, large numbers of prisoners died over time.[1][2][3]
- ^ Prisoners of the Japanese: Civilian internees, Pacific and South-East Asia. Australian War Memorial.
- ^ Japanse concentratiekampen. Oorlogsverhalen.nl (in Dutch).
- ^ Vrouwen aan het woord in documentaire over Japanse kampen. NOS, 29 maart 2024 (In Dutch).