Lawant Family papers and works of art

This series contains illustrations drawn by Catharinus Lawant during his internment by the Japanese occupation forces, in Indonesia during the Second World War. The pencil sketches depict scenes from camps captioned: 'Tjitaroermplein, Bandung' and Baros, Tjimahi, in West Java, northwest of Bandoeng.

[Items 1 - 8]

Handwritten biographical and historical notes relating to the lives of Catharinus Lawant and his wife Maria. A number also accompany individual items.

[Item 9]

Papers relating to the internment of the Lawrant Family in Indonesia during the Second World War. Included are identity and registration cards, ration lists and information leaflets regarding the state of the war.

[Items 10 - 20]

Three black and white photographs (copy prints) of Catharinus Lawant as a young man; Maria Lawant and Catharinus Lawant in their 60s.

[Items 21 - 23]

Three preprinted postcards, one blank, the others sent between family members, which were the only permitted means of communication. 

[Items 24 - 26]

Three items retained by the Lawant family in relation to their experiences as prisoners of the Japanese in Indonesia during the Second World War.

• Review of a recently published book "The forgotten ones: women and children under Nippon" by Shirley Fenton Huie. Sunday Mail Magazine, 29 November 1992
• Clipping showing the monument to Dr. J.C. de Groot in Citarum street in Bandung, the founder of the radio station in a gorge of the Malabar, through which direct communication with the Netherlands came about
• 'General bandoengsch daily newspaper', "de courant" Wednesday March 27, 1946

[Items 27 - 29]

'Myn Kamp niet Door Kitler Maar Door' by M.G. Hartley.
This cartoon book by Hartley is a humorous account of Tjimahi (Cimahi) camp life. The work covers the three-and-half years of internment suffered by Hartley and his ten thousand companions, mainly civilian men and boys.

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