Batavia Publishing
Anita
Rambonnet Reeks - Batavia Calling
A thrilling autobiographical short story about a woman who was imprisoned by the Japanese military police (Kempeitai) in 1942 and was very
severely interro- gated because of supposed espionage. The story was presumably written shortly after World War II. It was
published - for the first time - in 2004, in English and with an introduction by Coen van ’t Veer
and Govert Zijlmans. It forms part of the post-humous,
unpublished works of the artist and author Anita Rambonnet - Da Ponte
(1895-1955), who lived in Java from 1919 until 1947.