Websites
- "Concentration Camp of my Grandparents"
http://bloggerswithoutborders.com/2012/05/06/watch-what-is-left-of-the-concentration-camps-of-my-grandparents-in-2012/ - East Indies Camp Archives
http://www.indischekamparchieven.nl/en/general-information/about-de-camps/daily-life-in-the-camps - Holmes, Linda Goetz, Dutch Civilian Compensation from Japan and the American Dilemma, Japan Policy Research Institute, JPRI Working Paper No. 84, Feb. 2002
http://www.jpri.org/publications/workingpapers/wp84.html - Indonesia, 1946- Tjideng Internment Camp after Liberation ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0jA2vHhB4E - The Indo Project
http://www.theindoproject.org/site/ww2/the-camps - Tjideng Camp
http://members.iinet.net.au/~vanderkp/tjideng.html
Books
Women's Stories
- Bonga, Dieuwke Wendelaar, Eight Prison Camps: A Dutch Family in Japanese Java (Ohio RIS Southeast Asia Series) (Ohio University Press, 1996)
- Colijn, Helen, Song of Survival: Women Interned (White Cloud Press, 1995)
- Kelly, Clara Olink, The Flamboya Tree: Memories of a Mother's Wartime Courage (Random House, 2002)
- Van Oort, Boudewyn, Tjideng Reunion: A Memoir of World War II on Java
Men's Stories
- Daws, Gavan, Prisoners of the Japanese: POWs of World War II in the Pacific (HarperCollins Publishers, 1994)
- Hillenbrand, Laura, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Reslilience, and Redemption (Random House, 2010)
- MacArthur, Brian, Surviving the Sword: Prisoners of the Japanese in the Far East, 1942-45 (Random House Publishing Group, 2005)
- Nordin, Carl S., We Were Next to Nothing: An American POW's Account of Japanese Prison Camps and Deliverance in World War II (McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2004)
- Weller, George, First into Nagasaki: The Censored Eyewitness Dispatches on Post-Atomic Japan and Its Prisoners of War (Crown, 2006)
Some of the above books are compilations of POW stories shaped into cohesive narratives by professional writers; others are moving accounts of personal experiences. All focus on either women's stories or men's stories. Bowing to the Emperor differs from these books by weaving together the two stories-Klara's experience as an internee in two camps in Java and Wim's experience as a POW in several camps in Java, on the hell ship, and in a camp in Japan. It thereby provides a more comprehensive picture of what atrocities tens of thousands of civilian women and children endured as well as what military men endured as prisoners of the Japanese. It shines a light on these largely forgotten victims of World War II and also fits the personal story of the Andrau family into the larger story of the war.
