Philippines: Accounts of POW workers at Los Baños
and Santo Tomás Internment Camps in WWII
Herman Beaber (from Hydesville, California)
– internment at Los Baños, 1941–1945
Leo Stancliff (from Bakersfield, California)
– internment at Los Baños, 1941–1945
Willie Jamieson (from Chirnside, Scotland)
– internment at Los Baños, 1941–1945
Cecil Barrett (from New Zealand)
– internment at Los Baños, 1941–1945
(also on the Japan page)
Ernest Stanley (from Lower Farm, Ab Lench, near Evesham, England)
– internment at Santo Tomás, 1941–1945
March 5, 1945 – LIFE Magazine – Santo Tomás
– Workers delivered from Philippine prison (Photo Gallery: Los Baños – Santo Tomás)
Photo Gallery of other WWII Internees
Germany
Luise & Sofie Laderer
– prison experiences in Germany, with Pauline Schnitzer at Stuttgart
Werner Gebhard
– German concentration camp, 1943–1945
Fritz & Frida Schwille
– prisoners of war, died 1943 & 1944
Norway
Alma Lee – “My Prisoner of War Days”
Other Workers Who were Prisoners of War – Canada, Liberia, Ecuador, the Netherlands, Java and the Philippines
Jack Carroll at a California Convention
Status of Workers in Foreign Countries during WWII
Circa 1942
(Read the full account)
Said there had been no word from the workers (5 brothers) in Philippines since Dec. 22nd, then they were safe, but when Bataan fell, 20,000 civilian refugees were captured. Since then an article appeared in a paper here telling about the missionaries there. Mentioned certain groups whose status seems somewhat of a mystery, staying with their flocks. Jack supposed they are our workers. If so, they are in captivity.
The two workers in Hong Kong, Tom Fowler and companion, are in the hands of the enemy. His companion was quite badly treated–two ribs and a wrist broken, but is recovered now. Tom wrote that he still weighs 145 lbs. All who know him know that his usual weight is around 190 lbs.
Two brothers and two sisters were captured when the Island of Java fell. Two brothers taken prisoners in Singapore. Several workers in Burma able to get away from Gangoon and are now safe and at work in India. Through the British Red Cross, touch has been established with the workers in Greece. All are safe. One lone sister worker is holding the fort in unoccupied France, doing what she can to strengthen the Lord’s little flock there. Also one sister in Belgium. The 14 workers new in Holland able to carry on much as usual.
There are four in Denmark, but their movements are somewhat restricted. In Norway and Sweden, they were able to have their conventions much as usual. One brother in Czechoslovakia, who was interned for a while. Two brothers are interned in Germany. Another one…was under sentence of death for several months, then suddenly given his freedom with no explanation. 14 workers at present in Germany–somewhat hindered but may have meetings in homes. One brother worker in Warsaw, Poland. He was captured twice, first by one side, then by the other. Now he is free. There are two workers in Egypt and two in Syria.