Camp Life Is Paradise for Freddy. Fred Lanzing

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      Camp Life Is Paradise for Freddy

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      Southeast Asia Series consultants: Elizabeth F. Collins and William H. Frederick

      Camp Life Is Paradise for Freddy

       A Childhood in the Dutch East Indies, 1933–1946

       Fred Lanzing

      Translated by Marjolijn de Jager

      Introduction by William H. Frederick

      OHIO UNIVERSITY RESEARCH IN INTERNATIONAL STUDIES

      SOUTHEAST ASIA SERIES NO. 131

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      The title is taken from an entry in the diary of the author’s mother, written in May 1944.

      The publisher gratefully acknowledges the support of the Dutch Foundation for Literature.

       Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Lanzing, Fred, 1933– author. | De Jager, Marjolijn, translator. | Frederick, William H., writer of introduction.

      Title: Camp life is paradise for Freddy: a childhood in the Dutch East Indies, 1933–1946 / Fred Lanzing ; translated by Marjolijn de Jager ; introduction by William H. Frederick.

      Other titles: Voor Fredje is het kamp een paradijs. English

      Description: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2016. | Series: Ohio University research in international studies. Southeast Asia series ; no. 131 | Includes bibliographical references and index.

      Identifiers: LCCN 2016048990| ISBN 9780896803077 (hc : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780896803084 (pb: alk. paper) | ISBN 9780896804968 (pdf)

      Subjects: LCSH: Lanzing, Fred, 1933—Childhood and youth. | World War, 1939–1945—Concentration camps—Indonesia. | World War, 1939–1945—Prisoners and prisons, Japanese. | World War, 1939–1945—Personal narratives, Dutch. | Dutch—Indonesia—Biography.

      Classification: LCC D805.I55 L3613 2016 | DDC 940.53/17598092 [B]—dc23

      LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016048990

      Contents

       List of Illustrations

       Acknowledgments

       Note on Spelling

      Introduction by William H. Frederick

       ONE. The Dutch East Indies

       TWO. Surabaya

       THREE. Buitenzorg

       FOUR. Batavia

       FIVE. Batavia, Open City

       SIX. Kramat

       SEVEN. Cideng

       EIGHT. Tangerang

       NINE. Cimahi

       TEN. Bandung

       ELEVEN. Jakarta

       TWELVE. Adek

       THIRTEEN. The 10th Battalion

       FOURTEEN. Tanjung Priok

       FIFTEEN. Rite of Passage

       SIXTEEN. Holland

       Afterword

       Appendix: The Questionnaire

       Glossary

       About the Author

       Selected Works by Fred Lanzing

       Index

      Illustrations

       The author’s father receiving a Japanese delegation, June 1941

       A Surabaya newspaper notice of author’s father, August 1939

       The author with mother and sister, March 1943