- £450.00
Netherlands East Indies. (Internment Camp Mail). 1940. Netherlands East Indies postal stationery card 3 1/2c grey written from Banjoebiroe Internment Camp dated '3rd Oct 40' addressed to Tjimahi with oval 'CDT. VR. INT. KAMP/ Banjoe Biroe' with initials of the camp commander, routed via Ambarawa with transit '4/10' hand-stamped 'Gecensureerd' in carmine on face (applied by Mr Timmen who was Commander of the Camp) and 'Gecensureerd/ 5' .
The Internment Camp at Banjoebiroe was located in an old infantry barracks north of Ambarawa. The camp was intended for radicalized German/ Nazi women and housed 187 women and 101 children. The camp was closed on March 22nd 1941.
Ex Paul Bulterman's Internment Camp collection and illustrated in his book "Nederlands Indies in Oorlog" page 21.
Very rare, one of two items known with the Banjoebiroe oval Internment Camp cachet.
