HCW Rohde
Survivor | 1868 | Profession unkown
HCW Rohde managed, at the age of 74, to survive the ordeal at sea during the sinking of the ss Van Imhoff and reach the island of Nias, completely exhausted. The traumas of internment and the disaster at sea were too much for him. In despair, he hanged himself from a tree on the beach during his first night at Nias on 22 January 1942.
He was buried the next day by his companions.
He was buried the next day by his companions.
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