During World War II, an internment camp was built near the location of the former Jewish settlement and named after it, the Jodensavanne internment camp. It was constructed in 1942 to house 146 political prisoners from the Dutch East Indies who were considered hard-core German sympathisers or members of the Dutch NSB or the German NSDAP.[18][19] However, some Indonesian nationalists were also deported to Jodensavanne, most famously Ernest Douwes Dekker.[20]