50 years of silence (Imprint lives) - Softcover

Ruff-O'Herne, Jan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1875892001 ISBN 13: 9781875892006

Publisher: Editions Tom Thompson, 1994

Synopsis

The long idyllic summer of Jan Ruff-O'Herne's childhood in Dutch colonial Indonesia ended in 1942 with the Japanese invasion of Java. She was interned along with her family in a prison camp, and then, in February 1944, when she was 21, she was enslaved into prostitution by the Japanese Imperial Army. This is her story of how, with her faith and her courage, she survived that experience but then, like all other women forced into the "comfort stations", she was shamed into silence for 50 years.

About this title

About the Author:

Jan O’Herne was born in 1923 at Bandoeng, in central Java. After the Japanese invasion of the NEI, she, her mother, and her two sisters were interned, along with thousands of other Dutch women and children, in a disused and condemned army barracks at Ambarawa.

About this edition

• Publisher: Editions Tom Thompson
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 1875892001
• ISBN 13: 9781875892006
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 152