Kempeitai East District Branch
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Kempeitai East District Branch was the headquarters of the Japanese military police force, the much feared Kempeitai during the Japanese Occupation of Singapore. It was located at the old YMCA building, at the present site of Singapore's YMCA on Stamford Road. Opened in 1911, the distinctive Art Deco YMCA building was the site of interrogation and torture of many innocent civilians, including war heroine Elizabeth Choy (OBE). After the war, the Singapore…mehr

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Kempeitai East District Branch was the headquarters of the Japanese military police force, the much feared Kempeitai during the Japanese Occupation of Singapore. It was located at the old YMCA building, at the present site of Singapore's YMCA on Stamford Road. Opened in 1911, the distinctive Art Deco YMCA building was the site of interrogation and torture of many innocent civilians, including war heroine Elizabeth Choy (OBE). After the war, the Singapore government erected several memorials with some at the former massacre sites. In 1995, the former site of old YMCA building was gazetted by the National Heritage Board as one of the eleven World War II sites of Singapore.