Tulip Che Lah (4) WW2 Leper Settlement, Sg Buloh 1941-1945

MILESTONES

1942 - 1945 World War Two (WWII)

War broke out in Malaya at Kelantan in December 1941. It spread rapidly to the rest of Malaya. KL was capitulated in 1942. The Japanese Kempetai ruled Malaya with brute force.

Tulip's father had just adopted a son and the family had just moved back to Selangor when the war broke out.

Tulip, her parents and her sibs were staying at the Leper Settlement in Sungai Buloh. The family lived there since 13 June 1941. The war broke out in December 1941 in Kota Bharu. When the white doctors at the Leper Settlement were interned at Changi Prison in Singapore, her father became Medical Superintendent at Sungai Buloh, along with Dr Abrahams, looking after the entire Leper Settlement. Dr Abrahams later died from being overworked.

The family narrated several stories of cruelty and killings of the Kempetai. Her father was tortured with salt water jet to this throat when the Kempetai found out he had buried his big black car - a bloke leaked it to the Kempetai. The family suffered many ordeals till the war was over.

External links

NewspaperSG - Morning Tribune, 13 June 1941 - eResources
eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Issue/morningtribune19410613-1
Dr.M.Che Lah Dr. M. Che Lah, AM.O.. District Hospitai, Klang, has been transferred to the Leper Asylum. Sungei Buloh. Dr V Velupillal, from Bukit Buloh, has ...

http://leprev.ilsl.br/pdfs/1964/v35n4/pdf/v35n4a08.pdf

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