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Camp life is paradise for Freddy : a childhood in the Dutch East Indies, 1933-1946

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  • Other Name

    Voor Fredje is het kamp een paradijs. English (Alternate title)

    Research in international studies. Southeast Asia series ; no. 131 (Series)

  • Description

    "Children see and hear what is there; adults see and hear what they are expected to and mainly remember what they think they ought to remember," David Lowenthal wrote in The Past Is a Foreign Country. It is on this fraught foundation that Fred Lanzing builds this memoir of his childhood in a Japanese internment camp for Dutch colonialists in the East Indies during the World War II.

    When published in the Netherlands in 2007, the book triggered controversy, if not vitriol, for Lanzing's assertion that his time in the camp was not the compendium of horrors commonly associated with the Dutch internment experience. Despite the angry reception, Lanzing's account corresponds more closely with the scant historical record than do most camp memoirs. In this way, Lanzing's work is a substantial addition to ongoing discussions of the politics of memory and the powerful--if contentious--contributions that subjective accounts make to historiography and to the legacies of the past. Lanzing relates an aspect of the war in the Pacific seldom discussed outside the Netherlands and, by focusing on the experiences of ordinary people, expands our understanding of World War II in general. His compact, beautifully detailed account will be accessible to undergraduate students and a general readership and, together with the introduction by William H. Frederick, is a significant contribution to literature on World War II, the Dutch colonial experience, the history of childhood, and Southeast Asian history"--Provided by publisher.

  • Place
  • Other Id

    D805.I55 LAN (Library of Congress Call Number)

    88271 (Cat ID)

    88113 (Presto content ID)

  • Department

Images and documents

Catalogue

  • Object Type
  • Name/Title
    Camp life is paradise for Freddy : a childhood in the Dutch East Indies, 1933-1946
  • Other Name

    Voor Fredje is het kamp een paradijs. English (Alternate title)

    Research in international studies. Southeast Asia series ; no. 131 (Series)

  • Primary Maker

    Marjolijn De Jager (Translator)

    William Frederick (Writer of introduction)

     Fred Lanzing (Author)

  • Contributor/Publisher
    Ohio University Press
  • Place
  • Date
    2017?
  • Physical Description

    xxiv, 128 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

  • ISBN/ISSN
    9780896803077
    9780896803084
    9780896804968
  • Language
    Dutch
  • Level of Current Record
    Bib record
  • Member Object

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  • Subject Category
  • Content
    The Dutch East Indies -- Surabaya -- Buitenzorg -- Batavia -- Batavia, open city -- Kramat -- Cideng -- Tangerang -- Cimahi -- Bandung -- Jakarta -- Adek -- The 10th Battalion -- Tanjung Priok -- Rite of passage -- Holland.
  • Public Access Text

    [Keywords: Lanzing, Fred, 1933- --Childhood and youth; World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Indonesia; Dutch--Indonesia--Biography]

    Includes bibliographical references and index.

  • Collection Type
    Reading Room
  • Copyright
    All rights reserved
  • Last Update
    19 Dec 2023

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