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Nurse
Catherine Jansen
1906/04/29 - Born Penang
Soebang Military Hospital
Died
9th March 1942
Executed by the Japanese
When the Japanese troops entered Soebang, Java, in March 1942, they removed a nurse and her patients from the military hospital and massacred them with women and children of the civilian population.
Memorial
Catherin’s body was later moved to the "Ereveld Ancol", the War Cemetary in Jakarta, where she and others rest in a mass grave ("Verzamelgraf Soebang").
Awarded Resistance Star East Asia
Information
Keela Ffeol
‘The Knights of Bushido; by Lord Russell of Liverpool
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