Internment under Japanese Occupation in the Dutch East Indies
During the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies from 1942 to 1945, tens of thousands of Allied civilians and military personnel were confined in internment and prisoner-of-war camps. This topic brings together sources relating to their captivity, conditions in the camps, and their liberation and recovery at the end of the war.
Palembang Residential District Z-Sumatra
Details of the reception camp for Dutch and Allied civilians and prisoners of war in Palembang at the end of the war.
Dutch East Indies diaries and personal documents: EB van Dam
Diary February 13, 1942 - January 8, 1945 of Mr. EB van Dam (March 15, 1899 - October 7, 1970)
The BPM employee in Pladjoe, Emanuel Benjamin van Dam (Groningen, 1899), was interned in the Mulo school in Palembang in April 1942, in the Prison in Palembang from April 15, 1942, and in January 1943 in Poentjak Sekoening in Palembang. From September 1943 in the Prison in Muntok and from March 1945 in Belalau. In September 1945, he was transferred to hospitals in Johor Baru and Singapore.
Interview with Mamie Freda Colley
British civilian teacher served as Queen's Army Schoolmistress with Army Education Corps in GB, Germany and Singapore, Malaya, 1926-1942; internee in Muntok Internment Camp, Bangka Island, Bukit Besar, Irenelaan and Poentjak Sekoening Barracks Internment Camps, Palembang and Loeboek Linggau Internment Camp, Sumatra, Dutch East Indies, 2/1942-9/1945
Prisoner-of-War Diary of Gordon Stanley Reis
Captured by the Japanese off Sumatra on 18 May 1942 - press-ganged into working at Pladjoe BPM refinery after Japanese occupation of Palembang
An Attractive Naivety: Australia as a new nation in a complex world (Revised Edition)
An Attractive Naivety is an epic work of Australian historical fiction spanning the first half of the twentieth century. Through the lives of ordinary men and women, it traces the nation’s journey from Federation and plague to Depression, war, and uneasy peace. Interweaving fictional characters with real events, the novel explores the humour, hardship, courage and contradictions that shaped modern Australia.
Duncan Robertson. Singapore 1942
Robertson's account of his wartime experiences including being interned in Palembang and working at Pladjoe
Civilian Internees Camps in South Sumatra during the War
A timeline of mens' and womens' internees camps in South Sumatra
Prelude to the Monsoon: Assignment in Sumatra
Through the eyes of young Major Jacobs, a full view emerges of the "boiling cauldron" that was Sumatra in 1945. In spite of the official Allied victory, Jacobs had to attempt to rule Sumatra using the existing Japanese military structure until British relief arrived.