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Hendrik Rudolph Beijen Junior
This page is still under constructionHendrik Rudolph Beijen Junior (12.5) was born in 1881 (according to other sources in 1880 or 1882) on the island of Ternate. In those years his father, Hendrik Rudolph Senior, was the military commander of the island. His mother was a native woman called Dinah. Below are three pictures from various stages of his life. Hendrik Rudolph Junior lived and worked in Garut and other towns in Western Java. As far as we know he was unmarried, but he acknowledged three children of native women. In 1952, in the turbulent period after the Indonesian independence, when Hendrik Rudolph was the administrator of a rubber company, he was raided and murdered by robbers when he was en route with money for the payment of the wages. Jan Fortuin Beijen/Beyen (1912-1991) As far as we know, Hendrik Rudolph Junior had one son: Jan Fortuin Beijen (or Beyen) (13.3). He was born in 1912 in Garut in Western Java as a son of the native woman Maskanah. Later he was acknowledged by Hendrik Rudolph as his son. According to what was told in the family Jan meant a fortune for his father. This should have been the background of his second given name. Jan Beijen joined the KNIL. In the Second World War Jan Beyen was captured by the Japanese and transferred to the prisoners' camp Kawasaki near Tokyo. The prisoners of war in this camp had to do there forced labor in a shipyard for the Japanese war industry.  The picture above (Copyright by Al R. Young. All Rights Reserved. Courtesy of Al Young Studios; click on it for an enlarged version) is derived from a website of the American writer Al Young. In June 2009 Al Young published the book My Father’s Captivity about the experiences of his father, who was imprisoned in the same camp. On the picture Japanese guards are apparently peacefully sitting next to the mostly American, Dutch and Australian forced laborers. Jan Beyen is sitting on the front row, fifth from the right. On the enlargement below he is better visible.  After the Japanese capitulation the Americans brought him back to Java, after a temporary stay in the Philippines. In 1950 Jan moved to the Netherlands. He died in 1991 in Ede near Arnhem. His tombstone is shown on the Dutch page Grafstenen en andere gedenktekens (Tombstones and other monuments).   The front of the card shows that Jan was a soldier 2nd class and served as a motor orderly, and that he also has been involved as a driver and mechanic in a bus company in Bandung.
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