August 2004

1. Remco Raben (ed). Representing the Japanese Occupation of Indonesia, personal testimonies and public images in Indonesia, Japan and the Netherlands. Zwolle: Waanders Publ., Amsterdam: Netherlands Institute for War Documentation (NIOD), 1999. 240 p., ill. ISBN 90 400 9346 6. $ 50.-
Review: http://www.persimmon-mag.com/spring2001/bre_sp2001_9.htm

2. No Longer Silent: World-Wide Memories of the Children of World War II
Author(s): C. Leroy Anderson, Joanne R. Anderson, Yundsuke Ohkura, Mike Mansfield, Brook Neal, Tatsuo Ishikawa, Agnes Nelson, John Nelson, Setsuko Roberts, Lisa Robertson
Release Date: July, 1995 Paperback. Publisher: Pictorial Histories Publishing Co. Inc.
ISBN: 1575100037. $22.95

3. Way of a Boy: A Memoir of Java by Ernest Hillen
ISBN 940.53175982092 During World War II a young boy, his brother, and mother are imprisoned in a Japanese prison camp in Java. A harrowing and poignant memoir of a privileged childhood suddenly interrupted by the brutality of war.
Paperback: 200 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.50 x 8.00 x 5.25
Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper); Reprint edition (September 1995)
ISBN: 0140179755. $12.89
Other Editions: Hardcover | Audio Cassette | All Editions

4. The forgotten ones : women and children under Nippon .By: Shirley Fenton Huie
Publisher: Pymble, NSW, Australia : Angus & Robertson, 1992. ISBN: 0207170770. $12.00

5. Three came home. By Agnes Newton Keith. A mother’s ordeal in a Japanese prison camp.
Pages: 304. ISBN No: 0 907871 28 3
Date of first publication: 1948
Eland publication date: January 1, 2002
Price: £9.99
Review: http://www.patch.com/books/3camehome.html

Film: Three Came Home 1950 - USA - Docudrama/Biography [feature]/War Drama/POW Drama
PLOT DESCRIPTION
Starring Sylvia Andrew, Claudette Colbert, Florence Desmond, Sessue Hayakawa, Patric Knowles. Directed by Jean Negulesco. (NR, 106 minutes).
Based on the autobiographical book by Agnes Newton Keith, Three Came Home stars Claudette Colbert as Mrs. Keith. Trapped in Borneo during the Japanese invasion, Mrs. Keith and her children are penned up in a prison camp along with several other American and British subjects. Despite the humanitarian views of camp commander Sessue Hayakawa, Mrs. Keith is subject to torture, starvation and humiliation at the hands of the guards, with Hayakawa helpless to intervene lest he incur the wrath of his own superiors. Three Came Home contains several unforgettable moments, including a comic interlude between the male and female prisoners that ends abruptly with a barrage of Japanese bullets, and the heartwrenching scene wherein Hayakawa learns that his family has been killed in a bombing raid. Since lapsing into the public domain in 1977, Three Came Home has popped up innumerable times on cable television. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

6. The Flamboya Tree. By Clara Olink Kelly. Memories of a Mother’s Wartime Courage. Category: Biography & Autobiography; History - Military - World War II .Imprint: Random House Trade Paperbacks Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages Pub Date: April 2003 Price: $12.95 ISBN: 0-8129-6685-6. Fifty years after the end of World War II, Clara Olink Kelly sat down to write a memoir that is both a fierce and enduring testament to a mother’s courage and a poignant record of an often overlooked chapter of the war.

http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?0812966856

7. 50 years of silence . By Jan Ruff O'Hearne Tom Thomson, Sydney, Amsterdam, New York, 1994. Also audio book and videofilm. http://www.frif.com/new98/fiftyyr.html

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 in Ambarawa Prison Camp, along with her mother and two younger sisters. In February 1944, when Jan was 21, her life was torn apart. Along with nine other young women, all of them virgins, she was plucked from the camp and her family, and enslaved into prostitution by the Japanese Imperial Army.

8. ( Really Hors Concours is this delicious book about a pre-war childhood in Indonesia). Dutch widow, mother of three small children, does a man’s job running a complex of holiday bungalows, swimming pools and botanical gardens.

A Path in the Sunshine by Felicitas Wiebenga. PRANA publications, 1990, The Netherlands. Fax +31 20 791873. 166 p.