Ref: DR19685
- £150.00
Netherlands East Indies. Circa 1945. Stampless envelope written from Den Haag addressed to 'Concentration Kamp, "Aek Pamienke" S.O.K. Ned Ost Indies' with 'Nederlandsche - Indisch/ Roode Kruis' circular hand-stamp in carmine on face.
The 'Aek Pamienke' Camp held 5000 European women and children in three large camps from April to July 1945 in the last month of the Japanese Occupation, the conditions were primitive and a large number of the internees died of sickness and exhaustion.
The Japanese surrender was announced here on August 24, 1945.
Mail into 'Aek Pamienke' Concentration Kamp' (Sumatra) is very scarce. Little mail would have survived.
