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Samuel Koopman

Amsterdam, – Indische Oceaan nabij Benkoelen (Sumatra) a/b Junyo Maru,

Reached the age of 45 years

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Samuel Koopman was een zoon van Levie Koopman en Debora Vogel. Samuel Koopman huwde in 1921 met Saartje Weenen (1898). Het echtpaar kreeg in dat zelfde jaar dochter Deborah (1921-1989).

Samuel Koopman kwam om aan boord van de Junyo Maru.

Stadsarchief Amsterdam, gezinskaart S. Koopman

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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…

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