Post by NZBC on Dec 20, 2007 20:16:48 GMT 12
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Japanese Internment Camps in China and Hong Kong
Close to fourteen thousand civilians: men, women, and children, mostly of British and American nationality, were incarcerated in a number of prison camps as listed below:
In Hong Kong
Stanley.
In and around Shanghai
Pootung, Chapei, Lunwha, Ash Camp, Yu Yuen Road, Lincoln Avenue, Haiphong Road, and Great Western Road.
Upriver from Shanghai
Yangchow A, Yangchow B, and Yangchow C.
In the interior of Shantung Province
Weihsien.
Conditions in the camps were harsh as can be seen from this photograph of Lungwha Camp's water supply where taipans and office clerks alike had to line up for water.
Starvation diet, primitive sanitation, and lack of running water and other basic amenities was ordeal enough, it was the uncertain future, especially when Japan went on the defensive, threatening reprisal if invaded that put the inmates under great stress.
The concern was not unfounded. Inmates of Haiphong Road camp were herded into cattle trains bound for Manchuria. The Japanese garrison in Shanghai fearing bombing of their barracks at Lincoln Avenue occupied the Yu Yuen and Great Western Road camps after transplanting the inmates into their vacated barracks. Outside the perimeter of Weihsien camp pits were dug to receive its inmates, dead or alive. But the plans for extermination were halted with dramatic suddenness with the dropping of the atomic bomb.
FREE LOOKUP SERVICE
In the five decades that have passed since the war most of the inmates have passed on, leaving little record of their imprisonment. However, the identity of nearly 14,000 civilians have been recovered from the records, which the meticulous Japanese obliged the camp leaders to maintain.
I have created a database from these records, and will be glad to provide, free of charge to any relative, friend, or researcher, the information regarding the camp in which an individual was incarcerated, and his or her length of stay.
Regrettaby, I have no information on military prisoners of war.
Simply e-mail Desmond Power at the address given below, detailing the information you need about a civilian internee (for female internees who subsequently married, I need her maiden name) and I will send you the result of my search.
Japanese Internment Camps in China and Hong Kong
Close to fourteen thousand civilians: men, women, and children, mostly of British and American nationality, were incarcerated in a number of prison camps as listed below:
In Hong Kong
Stanley.
In and around Shanghai
Pootung, Chapei, Lunwha, Ash Camp, Yu Yuen Road, Lincoln Avenue, Haiphong Road, and Great Western Road.
Upriver from Shanghai
Yangchow A, Yangchow B, and Yangchow C.
In the interior of Shantung Province
Weihsien.
Conditions in the camps were harsh as can be seen from this photograph of Lungwha Camp's water supply where taipans and office clerks alike had to line up for water.
Starvation diet, primitive sanitation, and lack of running water and other basic amenities was ordeal enough, it was the uncertain future, especially when Japan went on the defensive, threatening reprisal if invaded that put the inmates under great stress.
The concern was not unfounded. Inmates of Haiphong Road camp were herded into cattle trains bound for Manchuria. The Japanese garrison in Shanghai fearing bombing of their barracks at Lincoln Avenue occupied the Yu Yuen and Great Western Road camps after transplanting the inmates into their vacated barracks. Outside the perimeter of Weihsien camp pits were dug to receive its inmates, dead or alive. But the plans for extermination were halted with dramatic suddenness with the dropping of the atomic bomb.
FREE LOOKUP SERVICE
In the five decades that have passed since the war most of the inmates have passed on, leaving little record of their imprisonment. However, the identity of nearly 14,000 civilians have been recovered from the records, which the meticulous Japanese obliged the camp leaders to maintain.
I have created a database from these records, and will be glad to provide, free of charge to any relative, friend, or researcher, the information regarding the camp in which an individual was incarcerated, and his or her length of stay.
Regrettaby, I have no information on military prisoners of war.
Simply e-mail Desmond Power at the address given below, detailing the information you need about a civilian internee (for female internees who subsequently married, I need her maiden name) and I will send you the result of my search.
