Sandakan Massacre Memorial
Sandakan Massacre Memorial consists of three monuments which commemorate 30 Chinese victims, most of the members are local elite of an underground movement who been executed on 27 May 1945 along with several other victims during the Japanese occupation of North Borneo.Photo: Cccefalon, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Agnes Keith House and Sam Sing Kung Temple.
Agnes Keith House
Museum
Photo: Cccefalon, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Agnes Keith House is a historic house museum in Sandakan District, Sandakan Division, Sabah, Malaysia. The museum is named after Agnes Newton Keith, an American author known for her three autobiographical accounts of life in British North Borneo. Agnes Keith House is situated 630 metres west of Sandakan Massacre Memorial.
Sam Sing Kung Temple
Place of worship
Photo: Cccefalon, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sam Sing Kung Temple is a Chinese temple in Sandakan, Sabah, Malaysia. Built in 1887, the temple is the third oldest temple in Sandakan, after Goddess of Mercy Temple and Tam Kung Temple. It is part of the Sandakan Heritage Trail. Sam Sing Kung Temple is situated 790 metres west of Sandakan Massacre Memorial.
St. Mary’s Cathedral
Church
Photo: Cccefalon, CC BY-SA 3.0.
St. Mary's Cathedral, or Sandakan Cathedral, is the cathedral and mother church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sandakan in Sandakan, Sabah, Malaysia. St. Mary’s Cathedral is situated 1 km west of Sandakan Massacre Memorial.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sandakan.
Sandakan
Photo: Cccefalon, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sandakan is a city of almost 440,000 people in Sabah, Borneo. It is the gateway to Sepilok Orangutan Sanctuary and the Labuk Bay Proboscis Monkey Sanctuary.
Sandakan Massacre Memorial
- Type: Memorial
- Description: monument
- Categories: stele, World War II memorial, and historic site
- Location: Malaysia, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude
5.8427° or 5° 50′ 34″ northLongitude
118.12122° or 118° 7′ 16″ eastOpen location code
6PQWR4VC+3FOpenStreetMap ID
node 2122311803OpenStreetMap feature
historic=memorialWikidata ID
Q2220387
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Japanese—“Sandakan Massacre Memorial” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “النصب التذكاري لمذبحة سانداكان”
- Chinese: “一九四五年五月廿七日殉难华侨纪念碑”
- Chinese: “壹九四五年五月廿七殉难华侨纪念碑”
- German: “Sandakan Massacre Memorial”
- German: “Sandakan-Massaker-Memorial”
- Japanese: “1945年5月27日殉難華僑紀念碑”
- Japanese: “1945年5月27日殉難華僑記念碑”
- Japanese: “壱九四五年五月廿七殉難華僑紀念碑”
- Japanese: “殉難華僑紀念碑”
- Japanese: “殉難華僑記念碑”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Gurudwara Sahib Sandakan and Pangkalan Polis Marin Sandakan.
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