{"id":523,"date":"2013-11-27T10:19:34","date_gmt":"2013-11-27T18:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/philippineinternment.com\/?page_id=523"},"modified":"2015-07-26T03:24:01","modified_gmt":"2015-07-26T10:24:01","slug":"bacolod-internment-camp","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/philippineinternment.com\/?page_id=523","title":{"rendered":"Bacolod Internment Camp, Negros"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bacolod Internment Camp established on June 5, 1942 in Bacolod North Elementary School, in Bacolod City, on Negros. Harvey C. Pope elected as “contact man” to the Japanese and Arthur W. Woods elected as assistant. The camp has about 140 internees within the first three months.<\/p>\n

According to Elizabeth Vaughan, in her book, Community Under Stress<\/em><\/a>, the camp eventually had 86 Americans, 39 British, 4 Dutch, 10 Filippinos, 4 Spanish and 5 Italians, for a total of 148 internees.
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Drawing of Bacolod Internment Camp in “Community Under Stress,” page 37<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

Eating and cooking arrangements were extremely haphazard to begin with.\u00a0 The great outdoors was their dining room and the earth their table until a cement building was turned over for their use as kitchen and mess hall.\u00a0 The Swiss Family Robinson at least had a breadfruit tree, but the internees’ only resource was the bounty of their cooks.\u00a0 Small wonder therefore that they attached much value to the work of Vera Harbort, the chief chef, who with a gang of helpers did all the cooking for the odd one hundred and forty prisoners for the first three months.\u00a0 At first they had to cook on open fires, with school furniture as fuel; later, alcohol and stoves from the sugar centrals made the culinary task easier.\u00a0 Mrs. Jardeleza succeeded Mrs. Harbort as cook and, when she was released from Camp, Martha Bullert took on the job for the duration.<\/p>\n

From Santo Tomas Internment Camp<\/em>, by F. H. Stevens<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

On March 2, 1943, 119 internees are transported to Santo Tom\u00e1s Internment Camp (STIC), arriving there about March 10th.<\/p>\n

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Negros Island, Philippines, showing camps at Bacolod and Iloilo (map courtesy of Google Maps)<\/p><\/div>\n

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