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Vries, 31 July 1901 – Indische Oceaan nabij Benkoelen (Sumatra) a/b Junyo Maru, 18 September 1944
Reached the age of 43 years
Samuel Lezer
The Junyo Maru was a Japanese cargo ship (one of the "hell ships") that was attacked and sunk on 18 September 1944 by the British submarine HMS Tradewind, resulting in the loss of over 5,000 lives.
Source: wikipedia
Samuel Lezer was een zoon van Andries Lezer en Grietje Israels.
Samuel Lezer kwam om aan boord van de Junyo Maru.
On 18 September 1944, a Japanese freighter was torpedoed by the British off the coast of Sumatra.
The "cargo" of this ship turned out to consist of prisoners of the Japanese.
Based on various sites on the internet, it would be 4,200 Indonesian forced laborers and about 2,500 prisoners of war, mostly Dutch.
On the site of the War Graves Foundation, 1391 people can be found who lost their lives on t…