KOYAGI, Japan (AP) — Dozens of relatives of former Dutch prisoners of war who suffered abuse and starvation during their captivity in one of Japan’s largest World War II prison camps visited on Saturday the site where their loved ones were held in Nagasaki to pay tribute to their memory.

The commemoration comes as Japan this year marks the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of the southwestern city of Nagasaki — a blast that many of the Dutch POWs saw from their camp.

Their names are engraved in a stone monument at the Fukuoka POW Camp No. 2 — the site of the larger of the two war prisons in Nagasaki during the war — that was erected in 2015 with contribution from Japanese survivors of the Nagasaki bombing and their descendants as a symbol of reconciliation and peace.

Andre Schram,

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