Description
Object description
Typed transcription (43pp, in English) of a personal diary for the period 16th June – 17th August 1942, author not known but almost certainly an employee of the Swiss Consulate in Kobe, Japan, recording various aspects of his work in Nagasaki and Shimonoseki during that time, primarily in connection with the interests of British and other foreign nationals resident or interned in the Nagasaki area, including visits to internment camps, assisting with arrangements for the evacuation of those who wished to leave the country and for those who preferred to remain, having to deal with mainly uncooperative Japanese officials (including the Kempeitai, secret military police), also responsible for winding up the affairs of the Consulates of Britain and other countries in Nagasaki and Shimonoseki which were being transferred to Japanese `caretakership'; with associated documents including: nominal lists of British and other foreign nationals living in Kobe and other areas; reports on camp conditions by (and nominal lists of) American internees in the Hyogo Internment Camp in Kobe (1945); report on the internment history of Americans who had been captured on Guam in December 1941 (1945); report on a visit to Notagawa POW camp, near Kobe (1945); three reports by American military personnel on their treatment and conditions as prisoners of war (latterly in the Hirohata sub-camp of Osaka POW camp, 1945); `Testimony against war criminals', a number of statements taken from US Army personnel in Kobe, 1945, regarding Japanese war crimes suspects; two questionnaire forms (English and German) to be used in connection with ? Red Cross inspection visits to POW and civilian internment camps; two information sheets issued by the Swiss Consulate in Kobe, `Information for American citizens who are to be repatriated' and `Financial arrangements for all American evacuees' (1942); form `Application for evacuation' (blank); uncaptioned photographs.
Content description
Typed transcription (43pp, in English) of a personal diary for the period 16th June – 17th August 1942, author not known but almost certainly an employee of the Swiss Consulate in Kobe, Japan, recording various aspects of his work in Nagasaki and Shimonoseki during that time, primarily in connection with the interests of British and other foreign nationals resident or interned in the Nagasaki area, including visits to internment camps, assisting with arrangements for the evacuation of those who wished to leave the country and for those who preferred to remain, having to deal with mainly uncooperative Japanese officials (including the Kempeitai, secret military police), also responsible for winding up the affairs of the Consulates of Britain and other countries in Nagasaki and Shimonoseki which were being transferred to Japanese `caretakership'; with associated documents including: nominal lists of British and other foreign nationals living in Kobe and other areas; reports on camp conditions by (and nominal lists of) American internees in the Hyogo Internment Camp in Kobe (1945); report on the internment history of Americans who had been captured on Guam in December 1941 (1945); report on a visit to Notagawa POW camp, near Kobe (1945); three reports by American military personnel on their treatment and conditions as prisoners of war (latterly in the Hirohata sub-camp of Osaka POW camp, 1945); `Testimony against war criminals', a number of statements taken from US Army personnel in Kobe, 1945, regarding Japanese war crimes suspects; two questionnaire forms (English and German) to be used in connection with ? Red Cross inspection visits to POW and civilian internment camps; two information sheets issued by the Swiss Consulate in Kobe, `Information for American citizens who are to be repatriated' and `Financial arrangements for all American evacuees' (1942); form `Application for evacuation' (blank); uncaptioned photographs.
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