Chapei Civil Assembly Centre - School hut and guard house, Shanghai, 1945

View from roof of West building, looking south-east, school hut on left, right end library, guard house far right, hut roofs damaged by USAAF parachute drops (original caption).

A copy of this photo can be found in Bob Hekking's memoirs: "School hut on left, with library at right end. Guard house, far right, where rice was stored. Note damage to hut roofs from USAAF parachute drops. What was centre hut used for? Carpenter shop."

Charles Gesner van der Voort (1916-1991) worked in Shanghai for Holland-China Trading Company, from 1939. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1941, the Japanese entered the International Concession of Shanghai. Life changed considerably for nationals of countries which the Japanese considered enemies. Radios, cameras, cars had to be handed in. It became forbidden to visit cinemas. People had to wear armbands to be easier to recognise. A letter indicated the country: A=American, B=British, N=Netherlands, X=other nationalities.

In March 1943, Charles Gesner van der Voort was interned in Chapei (now: Zhabei) Civil Assembly Centre, along with about a hundred other Dutch nationals.

15 August 1945, the internment camp was liberated. The final months, especially knowing that the war in the Netherlands had ended in May 1945 and when the food rations had reduced considerably, had lasted very long for the people interned.

Several people who were interned in Chapei shared their drawings and stories with me.

Courtesy Bob de Vries, courtesy California State University Northridge, Oviatt Library, Old China Hands Archives
library.csun.edu/SCA/OldChinaHands

Taken on: August 1, 1945

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