AWM Collection Record: P03770.001

AWM image P03770.001

ID Number: P03770.001
Maker: Unknown
Place made: Netherlands East Indies: Java, Batavia
Date made: c 1945
Physical description: Black & white
Summary: European children playing in one of the overcrowded huts in Kampong Makassar internment camp. The camp, run by the Japanese, housed 3500 women and children in only 19 barracks. The women and children were badly treated, forced to maintain market gardens, while their meagre rations and water were often with held as punishment.
Credit line: Donor V Mol
Copyright: Copyright expired - public domain
Copyright holder: Copyright Expired

Last-Modified: Thu, 06 Nov 2008 22:44:45 GMT

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