A temporary POW camp established on a school campus in Gukeng, Yunlin. It was operational from August 1944 to April 1945. Most of the several hundreds of prisoners interned here were too ill to work.
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Links
- Cultural Heritage Map of Taiwan POW Camps (第二次世界大戰臺灣戰俘營地圖)
Themes
- Japanese Colonial Era Taiwan (台灣日治時代)
- World War 2 History in Taiwan (台灣第二次世界大戰歷史)
- Taiwan POW Camps (臺灣戰俘營)
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Alexander Synaptic
Curator, Spectral Codex
I am a web application developer, photojournalist, urban explorer, and history enthusiast passionate about the open web and documenting my experiences on this planet. This project was founded in the early 2010s and has evolved into a sort of personal Wikipedia of places that interest me (and often the photographs I’ve taken there). I’m originally from Toronto, Canada, but spend most of my time residing in Taiwan.