Information About Tine Henriëtte (Tineke) Weynschenk

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Regarding my mother’s side, I know that she was in a Japanese prison camp, regarding which she occasionally mentioned bad experiences. After the Japanese surrender started the next tragedy, with Soekarno and company fighting for independence. I understand that she herself was confronted with some of the slaughters.

My mother always described the period before the second World War as a nice time. She and her family also spent some time in Laren (province of North Holland), although I don’t know how, why or what.

My mother was born in Puwokerto, Java, on June 13, 1919. When she was about four the family moved to live in Holland, in Laren (Noord-Holland) in the house of an uncle. After a few years they went back to Java: first to Purwokerto and after that Surabaya. That is where she lived for the majority of her time in the Dutch East Indies.

After elementary school she went to the 3-year girls HBS (high school) and after that she got a professional training. She started working, for for a newspaper and later for the car dealer Fuchs and Rens.

My mother, her sisters and parents were not in a prison camp during the Japanese occupation. Only after the Japanese capitulation they ended up in a camp where Japanese soldiers were expected to protect them against Indonesians during the Bersiap period. Her brothers Dolf and Cherrie were transported to Japan during the war. Dolf died in on the way, Cherrie was put to work (as forced labor) in the mines near Nagasaki.