Testimony of Karolina Lin (Waterman) Levi, born in Jakarta, the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia) in 1935, regarding her experiences during the Japanese occupation of Indonesia in 1942-1945
Dutch Zionist family; her parents were born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands; her father works as an agronomist; move to Indonesia (a Dutch colony) in 1935 [?]; outbreak of World War II; loss of contact with their family in the Netherlands; Pearl Harbor; draft of her father into the Dutch Army in Indonesia as an officer; Japanese occupation; her father is taken captive by the Japanese in February 1942; her father participates in the construction of the bridge over the River Kwai; detention of the women and children in a POW camp in Indonesia; POW camp life; liberation in August 1945; return to the Netherlands in December 1946; receipt of information regarding the death of members of their family in the Netherlands; aliya to Israel in 1949.
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13173177
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Karolina
Lit
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Levi
Vaterman
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1935
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Jakarta, Dutch East Indies
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Hebrew
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O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives
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06/07/2017
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06/07/2017
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ืืืืจืื ืืื ืืื ืงืจืืืื ื Karolina Lin (Waterman) Levi