The IISH received the papers of Jan Petrus de Putter papers through the kind agency of his family.
De Putter grew up in Zeeland-Flanders, received vocational training as an Indian civil servant, and in 1932 became an auditor for the Civil Service in Java and Sumatra. After the Japanese invasion he was separated from his wife and children and deported to a camp, where he died in 1944. His daughter Ineke wrote a book on her father and the family's adventures. The papers include correspondence between De Putter and his wife from 1932 to 1942, documents on his work while in office, and many documents that shed a light on his wife and three daughters' situation during the Japanese occupation, its aftermath, and their return to the Netherlands. A photo album and two family films made in about 1939 are included.
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