The Foreign Service Journal, January-February 2017

THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL | JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2017 85 Born Josephine Yvonne van Geelen in Bandung, Java, in the former Netherlands East Indies, to Karel Lodewijk van Geelen andTheodora (Dolly) Henriette Antonia (née Liveu, subsequently van Geelen, then van Dijke) Hoekstra, Mrs. Duffield grew up with her father in the pampered, colonial-era Dutch society in what is today Indonesia. She also spent three years (1928-1931) with her mother in the Netherlands. She was working as a steno-typist for the Dutch Civil Air Protection Services in Surabaya when the Japanese invaded and occupied the Netherlands East Indies. As chief administrative officer of the State Railways for East Java, Mrs. Duffield’s father was taken into custody by the Kem- peitai shortly after Dutch capitulation in March 1942, and she never saw him again. Mrs. Duffield spent the war years in three Japanese internment camps on Java— Darmowijk in Surabaya, and Gedangan and Lampersari in Semarang. After the Japanese surrender, Mrs. Duffield returned to Surabaya to search for her father. Her quick thinking and fear- lessness saved the lives of residents of the house in which she lived frommarauding mobs of young Indonesian nationalists. When she refused to be evacuated, she was imprisoned by the nationalists in the Simpang Club, thereby surviving the ensu- ing Massacre of Surabaya in November 1945. When the nationalists were forced to retreat inland, she was released by Deibel Effendi and subsequently worked for the Allied British Military Police until they handed over power to their Dutch succes- sors in April 1946. Mrs. Duffield returned to the Nether- lands in August 1946 and there met her future husband. FSOThomas Duffield was posted to Rotterdam and had rented a room in Mrs. Hoekstra’s fifth-floor flat Take AFSAWith You! Change your address online, visit us at www.afsa.org/address Or Send changes to: AFSAMembership Department 2101 E Street NW Washington, DC 20037 Moving?