Stanley Internment Camp

Stanley Internment Camp
Chinese: 赤柱拘留營
Stanley Internment Camp; Chinese: 赤柱拘留營
Internment camp
	One of the former internees looks at Stanley Internment Camp
Coordinates	22°12′57″N 114°13′00″E / 22.2158°N 114.21661°E
Location	Stanley, Hong Kong
Operated by	Japan
Original use	School and prison
Operational	January 1942 - 16 August 1945
Inmates	Non-Chinese civilians
Number of inmates	2,800

Stanley Internment Camp (Chinese: 赤柱拘留營) was a civilian internment camp in Hong Kong during the Second World War. Located in Stanley, on the southern end of Hong Kong Island, it was used by the Japanese imperial forces to hold non-Chinese enemy nationals after their victory in the Battle of Hong Kong in December 1941. About 2,800 men, women, and children were held at the non-segregated camp for 44 months from early January 1942 to August 1945 when Japanese forces surrendered.^[1] The camp area consisted of St Stephen's College and the grounds of Stanley Prison, excluding the prison itself.^[2]

^ Bernice Archer; Kent Fedorowich (1996). "The Women of Stanley: internment in Hong Kong 1942–45". Women's History Review. 5 (3): 374. doi:10.1080/09612029600200119.
^ Geoffrey Charles Emerson (1977). "Behind Japanese Barbed Wire: Stanley Internment Camp, Hong Kong 1942–1945" (PDF). Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. 17: 31. Retrieved 13 May 2007.