Dutch child survivor of Japan’s WWII camps speaks for the unheard

Unveiling the Quiet Journey of Tineke Einthoven

Now, with a calm voice, the 87‑year‑old Dutch woman shares the story of a life caught in the clutches of a brutal Japanese internment. For eight decades, Tineke lived in silence, holding the heavy memories of a childhood spent in a distant Java camp.

The First Echoes of War

• As the thunder of bombing unfolded in early 1942, her family escaped into a garden pit, seeking refuge from the relentless Japanese assault.
• Indonesia, then a Dutch colony, became the target of the Imperial Japanese for its liquor and rubber plantations.
• From weeks of doubt, Tineke’s father, Willem Frederik, was pulled apart from his family. With the absence of news for a year, the family faced the brutal reality of life on the ground.

One in Ten – The Harsh Reality of Allied Civilians

At camp Tjibunut by Bandung, Dutch, British and Australian civilians endured gruelling conditions. Of the 130,000 Allied civilians held during the war, the Dutch suffered the highest rate of death, with more than one in ten perishing. The memory remains vivid in Dutch collective perception.

At the heart of camp neglect, the struggle to survive. The small, the desperate, the hungry…

• Her mother led them to a camp in Tjibunut near Bandung, where the high soaring danger was a reality.
• With a name, the body authors the TM.

Convoys the Japanese drone

• During the journey, the convoy was bombed by the Americans, but their ship was spared.
• The period 37 frequency. Since the release of the first question, the family suffered the loss of its deceased.

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A Modern Closure

After the war, Tineke pursued a career as a psychologist across Geneva, Nice and neighboring Monaco, while nurturing her family — two children. Until now, she had kept the secrets hidden from anyone beyond her family circle. In today’s quiet revelation, she acknowledges that she can let go of victim status. She says: “Now, I can talk about it without crying. This revelation is a new beginning.”