LIST OF TAIWAN POW
CAMPS. . . all found !
1. KINKASEKI #1 (Chinguashi)
2. TAICHU #2 (Taichung
3. HEITO #3 (PingTung)
4. SHIRAKAWA #4 (Chiayi)
5. TAIHOKU #5 MOSAK (Taipei)
6. TAIHOKU #6 (Taipei)
7. KARENKO (Hualien)
8. TAMAZATO (Yuli)
9. KUKUTSU (Taipei)
10. OKA (Taipei)
11. TOROKU - (Touliu)
12. INRIN - (Yuanlin)
13. INRIN TEMP. (Yuanlin)
14. TAKAO (Kaohsiung)
15. CHURON (Taipei) |
Welcome…
We are pleased to welcome Mr. Ron MacIntosh, the new Executive Director of the Canadian Trade Office in Taipei as an ex-officio member of our board of directors.
Ron replaces Gordon Houlden who left Taiwan this past summer for a new posting. We want to specially thank Gordon for the interest and support that he gave to our Society and we wish him well. We are looking forward to working with Ron and the staff of the CTOT in the coming year.
We also want to welcome Mr. Menno Goedhart to our ex-officio board as of this fall. Mr. Goedhart is the Representative of the Netherlands Trade and Investment Office in Taipei and is stepping in to fill the shoes of his former deputy Mr. Henk Nouwens who left Taiwan this past summer.
Henk had a keen interest in the POWs’ story and was a tremendous help to us over the years he was here. He wrote articles about the former Taiwan POW camps and our Society for the Dutch national veterans’ magazine, keeping the members informed of our activities and trying to help us find former Dutch POWs and their families. He also obtained books and articles in Dutch and spent hours translating them into English for our archives. His wife Beppie was also a great help in spreading the word about the camps and our work among the Dutch community in Taiwan and also by encouraging local school children here to learn more of the story. Their contribution was invaluable and we thank them for their efforts, and are looking forward to working with Menno in the future. |
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TU TAN DISTRICT RESIDENTS
HOLD MEMORIAL SERVICE AT KUKUTSU CAMP
The Tu Tan District is a rural area on the outskirts of Hsintien City, south of Taipei, where the former “Kukutsu” POW Camp was located. In early November I received a call from one of the residents asking if there were any former Taiwan POWs returning and if we were going to be holding a memorial service on the site of the camp this year. Sadly I had to tell them that there were no POWs coming and our other visitors had no-one who was in the camp, so we likely wouldn’t be holding a service there this time.
Then on Sunday November 12th to my great surprise, I received an email with some photos attached saying that the local residents had held a memorial service on their own on Saturday November 11th at 3pm in the afternoon. They wanted to remember the men who suffered and died in the camp, and needless to say I was very moved to see what they had done. It certainly shows the support we have from the local people in Taiwan, and to my knowledge this is the first time that local Taiwanese have observed our western Remembrance Day by themselves. It seems that the message of remembrance is spreading, and I’m sure that the former Taiwan POWs who were in the Kukutsu Camp and their families will be as thrilled as I was to hear the news. May God bless all the residents for their thoughtfulness!
Some photos from the Kukutsu Remembrance Day service - November 11th, 2006
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