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Abraham Leest

Den Haag, – Indische Oceaan nabij Benkoelen (Sumatra) a/b Junyo Maru,

Reached the age of 59 years

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Over Abraham Leest

Het is bekend dat Abraham Leest gehuwd was en een kind had. Het lot van zijn vrouw en kind is onbekend.

Abraham Leest kwam om aan boord van de Junyo Maru.

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Junyo Maru

On 18 September 1944, a Japanese freighter was torpedoed by the British off the coast of Sumatra.

The "cargo" of this ship turned out to consist of prisoners of the Japanese.

Based on various sites on the internet, it would be 4,200 Indonesian forced laborers and about 2,500 prisoners of war, mostly Dutch.

On the site of the War Graves Foundation, 1391 people can be found who lost their lives on t…

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