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Herdenk Hartog Polak

Hartog Polak

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

Reached the age of 43 years

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ouders en echtgenoot

Hartog's vrouw en 2 kinderen hebben de oorlog overleefd.
Hij is een zoon zoon van
Simon Polak (1873-1943) &
Duifje Brouwer (1877- ?)

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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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