Attestenvergadering (Meeting)

Place Asia: Netherlands East Indies, Java, Bandoeng
Accession Number ART91953
Collection type Art
Measurement Overall: 18.6 x 24.4 cm (irreg.)
Object type Work on paper
Physical description pen and ink on buff paper laid on tissue paper
Maker Tierie, E
Place made Netherlands East Indies: Java, Bandoeng
Date made 1943
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: External copyright

Description

A man and several women are sitting and working at desks in an office environment at Camp Karees, Bandoeng. This is a 'meeting of doctors to give the sick and old extra rations. This lasted only a year, no extras were available for them after the first 18 months.' Correspondence of Mrs Hanny Balt, November 2001. Mrs Hanny Balt, then Hanny Hessels, was an internee of Camp Karees along with her sister Dicki, nicknamed Ponny, her youngest brother Dirk, nicknamed Bully, her grandfather Dirk Van Zalm and her mother Mrs Frederika Hessels Van Zalm. This is one of 28 drawings created by internees of Camp Karees and presented to Mrs Frederika Hessels Van Zalm as a token of appreciation for her tireless work running the camp's kitchen. Camp Karees was one of many internment camps created in Indonesia, by the Japanese, for the detainment of Dutch residents in the Second World War. Camp Karees was created for the detainment of women and children. A number of elderly men were also detained at Camp Karees. The camp held 6000 internees and private cooking was forbidden. All meals were provided form a central kitchen and trading for food from outside the camp was severely punished. 'Karees was a collection of houses in the poorer section of Bandoeng, fenced off with gedek (plaited bamboo sheets) topped with barbed wire.' Shirlie Fenton Huie, 1992.