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Civilian Internment Camps Bund Hotel, Totsuka, and the Yokohama Yacht Club |
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Contributed by: Jim Holmgren,
Fairbanks,Alaska The residents of the Aleutian Island of Attu were taken to two locations. Mrs. Etta Jones was housed with the Australian Nurses from Rabaul in the Bund Hotel, Yokohama Yacht Club and Totsuka. See picture of nurses The other 54 residents were housed in Otaru, Hokkaido. Half did not survive internment. Only one baby born at the end of the war survived. The others born in Otaru died. Special link to website of Rod Miller, outstanding researcher from Australia who has carefully documented these camps and the experiences of the nurses in his book, Lost Women of Rabaul. See also WWII Australian Nurses who were Interned in Yokohama and The Rabaul Nurses Prisoners of World War ll. Chart on Kanagawa CIC's - chronology and further information on this camp |