Download e-book for iPad: Eight Prison Camps: A Dutch Family in Japanese Java (Ohio by Dieuwke Wendelaar Bonga

By Dieuwke Wendelaar Bonga

ISBN-10: 0585090459

ISBN-13: 9780585090450

ISBN-10: 0896801918

ISBN-13: 9780896801912

Eldest daughter of 8 little ones, the writer grew up in Surakarta, Java, in what's now Indonesia. within the months following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, even if, Dutch nationals have been rounded up through jap infantrymen and installed internment camps. Her father and brother have been despatched to split men’s camps, leaving the writer, her mom, and the 5 more youthful little ones within the women’s camp. during this and later seven different felony camps in important Java, their lives steadily deteriorated from early days of worry and crowding to close hunger, pressured hard work, beatings, and seeing others disappear or die. at the family’s go back to Holland after the struggle, they discovered a kingdom recuperating from German career and principally blind to the horror of the a long way East experience.

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The money she earned was handed over to her parents. Still, she grew up to be a very contented girl. She was a teenager during the First World War, in which Holland stayed neutral. The economy in Holland was very poor when Papa and Mama became engaged. She was eighteen and he twenty. Papa did not find a teaching position right away. These were hard times for many people and Papa sometimes worked for nothing just to gain some experience. When finally, after 1. In Dutch, the name Dieuwke is often shortened to Joke (much like Jeffrey may be shortened to Jeff in English).

We were just in the first weeks of January, 1942, when Emmy and I, as teenagers, were approached to help out at an air control service. M. M. M. Our job was to take telephone messages and record reports from different observation posts around our city about enemy aircraft sightings. It was an easy job and, we felt, a fun part of our war volunteering. Emmy, I, and Els, a girlfriend of mine who lived close to us, were picked up by the Muiden's private car. The Muiden's daughter, Petra, who was in the same high school class with me, was also in our group.

This large verandah struck out quite far in front of our house into the front yard, just like a garage. It was surrounded Page 28 with a decorative wood carved balustrade with entrances on each side. This balustrade was approximately one and a half meters high. When the heat of the tropical sun hit the house, the bamboo shades were let down all around it to keep the house cool. Normally our kebon performed this chore, but I did not mind doing it. Five of the six shades were down. One more to go in the front center and that was it.

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