Lost Childhood: My Life in a Japanese Prison Camp During World War II
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| Rating | : | 4.29 (827 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1426303211 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 112 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-06-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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Annelex Hofstra Layson spent three of the first seven years of her life in Japanese prison camps. The heartrending story of her lost childhood has remained untold for 60 years.
The heartrending story of her lost childhood has remained untold for 60 years. . About the Author Annelex Hofstra Layson spent three of the first seven years of her life in Japanese prison camps
rmcrae said A Lost Childhood in a World War II era Japanese Prison Camp. When I was growing up, we learned everything we could about World War II. Most of the focus was on Hitler's rise to power and the horrors of the concentration camps. However, I don't remember learning anything about the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies following the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 19A Lost Childhood in a World War II era Japanese Prison Camp rmcrae When I was growing up, we learned everything we could about World War II. Most of the focus was on Hitler's rise to power and the horrors of the concentration camps. However, I don't remember learning anything about the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies following the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Annelex Hofstra Layson shares her own account of that harrowing period in her autobiography Lost Childhood: My Life in a Japane. 1. Annelex Hofstra Layson shares her own account of that harrowing period in her autobiography Lost Childhood: My Life in a Japane. "Eye Opening." according to L. W. Bacon. This is a well written and interesting book about an experience that hopefully few people will experience. This is a good book for families to read and talk about.. Their way of life changed for ever. John C. Waller Young Dutch children through to non-combatant Dutch adults were forced into POW-like prison camps in Java. The Japanese wanted an Indonesian government answerable to the Japanese; permission for this in early 1942 was obtained from the first post-WW II Indonesian president, Sukarno. The Dutch were to have no part in government.The way the Dutch were treated by the Japanese guards followed very closely on treatment handed out to Allied POWs. There
We share in Annelex’s near-death bout with malaria. World war is replaced by civil war in Indonesia, forcing the family to flee first to Holland and then to the U.S., where the family tries to mend their broken lives.For 60 years Annelex Hofstra Layson has repressed her early memories, shielding even her husband and children from the horrors of her past. We also share some of the awful things she witnessed—extracting parasitic worms from a fellow-prisoner’s throat; the agonizing death by starvation of women punished for stealing food; and the sight of bodies being piled high on a truck.Eventually the hell ends and the family is liberated. Her grandfather is a successful planter, and her father is a pilot instructor in the Royal Netherlands Navy. But the girl’s personal hell plagues her in freedom. We learn of the grinding daily routine of the pri