 On November 23, 1947 the history has wrote with a golden pen about the
heroically battle of Bondowoso society against the Dutch colony. 100
civil soldiers were carried by three cars. The car number GR.10152
contained 30 people, the car number GR.446 contained 32 people, and the
car number GR5769 contained 38 people. The people were carried by train
from Bondowoso station to the jail at Kalisosok Surabaya. Those carts
departed from Bondowoso train station at 03.00 a.m. The soldiers who
were in those cars felt hot and stuffy because the lack of air inside
those cars and they pushed each other to get the air through the small
holes on that broken cars. The worst thing was that those cars' walls
were so hot because of the sunshine. The soldiers were dehydrated, and
the result of this happened was 46 people of 100 people were dead. That
historical moment had known as Gerbong Maut Incident, and Gerbong Maut
Monument was built to memorize this deadly incident. It has become an
important historical monument of Bondowoso. This monument is located in
the heart of Bondowoso city and to remember the dedication of those
heroes to this nation, it is held a ceremony on the hero day every year.
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