"Hoten" concentration camp. Click to enlarge photographs.

 

the BullJap Staff hoten
The Bull and the staff of Hoten Camp

bunkbeds
Bunk beds and "Pitchka"

Hoten guard house, note the electric wire on top of the wall. To stop anyone getting in
Guard room and electric fence on top of the wall. To read all about my fathers time in camp "HOTEN" you will have to purchase his book "Mission Scapula"

INDEX

BOOK

My fathers obituary

film show afer the Russians had liberated them  Parade ground after being bombed by that US Air force
The Camp Hospital and the parade ground after it was
bombed by the US air force
Christmas card to enlarge click once   cemetary
Christmas card ................          ...Hoten Cemetery
It was the night before Christmas
and all through the house,
little creatures were stirring,
each one a louse,
All the men were sleeping
or might we say Almost,
except for the night guards,
who leaned on their posts
No stockings were hung
by the petchkas with care,
in the hope that St Nicholas
soon would be there,
For old Santa was busy so far, far away,
they were sure,
He would not come that day

But the gripes and the hollers
were certainly few,
for tomorrows a dinner,
With 'Takusan Nikku'
there is a special treat,
a programme, and singing,
and goodies to eat.
Now we've come far together
and there's far to go yet,
and when we get home again
theirs lots to forget,
So 'Kyotsky' and 'bango'
and keep in the race,
for the chances are, next year,
we'll be gone from this place