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'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.' (Publisher)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Also sound recording, large print.
Awards
- 1997 winner The TDK Australian Audio Book Awards — Abridged Non-Fiction
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cIndonesia,cSoutheast Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
- 1939-1945
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cIndonesia,cSoutheast Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
- ca. 1939-1945
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