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Author
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
Helen Colijn's account of her wartime experiences provides a window into an overlooked dimension of World War II: the imprisonment of women and children in Southeast Asia by the Japanese. Colijn relates how the prisoners of war responded to their dire circumstances during three and a half years of captivity. Conditions were terrible; food was scarce and medicine unavailable. More than a third of the women in Helen's camp died of disease or starvation....
Author
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
This is Helen Colijn's account of her World War II imprisonment in Southeast Asia by the Japanese. Though these women and children had no musical instruments, they had their voices, and from memory scored classical works for symphony and piano. Their courage, faith, resiliency, ingenuity, and camaraderie provide us with lessons on living.
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