de Gaarkeuken van het Vrouwenkamp Karees, Bandoeng (Kitchen of the women's camp, Camp Karees, Bandoeng)

Place Asia: Netherlands East Indies, Java, Bandoeng
Accession Number ART91963
Collection type Art
Measurement Overall: 24.4 x 16 cm (irreg.)
Object type Work on paper
Physical description pen and ink on buff paper laid on tissue paper
Maker Van Grondelle, Connie
Place made Netherlands East Indies: Java, Bandoeng
Date made September 1943
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: External copyright

Description

This is the cover page for a series of drawings by Connie van Grondelle, created in Camp Karees in Bandoeng, Indonesia. A series of 28 drawings were created by Connie van Grondelle and other internees of Camp Karees. These drawings were presented to Mrs Frederika Hessels Van Zalm as a token of appreciation for her tireless work running the camp's kitchen. Mrs Hessels Van Zalm was detained in Camp Karees with her two daughters Hanny and Dicki, who was nicknamed Ponny, her youngest son Dirk, nicknamed Bully, and her father Dirk. Her eldest son Fred was sent to a men's camp. 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.