Bathing Room in the Women's Quarter of the Makassarese Village Near Master Cornelis in Batavia
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  • This 1945 photograph shows women and children bathing at the Kampong Makassar internment camp near Batavia (present-day Jakarta) during World War II. After the Dutch East Indies fell to Japanese forces in 1942, many Dutch residents were forced into internment camps, where they stayed until the end of the war. At Kampong Makassar, which operated from January to August 1945, more than 3,600 women and children were held in a space measuring less than one square kilometer. The photograph is from the collections of the KITLV/Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies in Leiden.

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  • Badkamer in het vrouwenkamp Kampong Makassar nabij Meester Cornelis in Batavia

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  • 17 x 23 centimeters

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