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Amsterdam, – Indische Oceaan nabij Benkoelen (Sumatra) a/b Junyo Maru,
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Samuel Koopman 1934 Felixarchief
Samuel Koopman 1929 Felixarchief
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…
