Title: Eight prison camps
First published: 1996
Description: Eldest daughter of eight children, the author grew up in Surakarta, Java, in what is now Indonesia. In the months following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, however, Dutch nationals were rounded up by Japanese soldiers and put in internment camps. Her father and brother were sent to separate men's camps, leaving the author, her mother, and the five younger children in the women's camp.

In this and later seven other prison camps in central Java, their lives gradually deteriorated from early days of fear and crowding to near starvation, forced labor, beatings, and seeing others disappear or die. On the family's return to Holland after the war, they found a nation recovering from German occupation and largely ignorant of the horror of the Far East experience.
Subjects: Biography, Concentration camps, Dutch Personal narratives, History, Japanese Prisoners and prisons, Personal narratives, Dutch, Prisoners and prisons, Japanese, Prisoners of war, World War, 1939-1945, World war, 1939-1945, prisoners and prisons, japanese, Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945, Camps d'internement, Prisonniers et prisons des japonais, Prisonniers de guerre, Biographies, Histoire, Récits personnels, Néerlandais, Military, World War II, Interneringskampen, History & Archaeology, History - General
Places: Indonesia, Java
People: Dieuwke Wendelaar Bonga
Time periods: Japanese occupation, 1942-1945
LC classification: D805.I55 B66 1996