Morning Comes and Also the Night : A Story of Courage and Survival in Japanese Internment Camps of North Sumatra

Jongbloed, Marijcke

Mosaique Press（2010/08発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 268 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781906852030
• DDC分類 940.531759812

Full Description

The chance discovery of a secret cache of letters rekindled Marijcke Jongbloed's lifelong fascination with the circumstances of her birth and her parents' wartime experiences. The letters were written in captivity by her father and smuggled through Japanese controls to her mother in a different internment camp in Indonesia. Sixty-five years later, they form the basis of a fascinating and moving insight into survival under the cruel conditions of a distant and frequently ignored part of the Second World War.

Contents

Acknowledgements Maps Notes on the text Introduction: A voice from the past 1 - Equals and opposites 2 - Eastward 3 - World at war 4 - The Japanese occupation 5 - First taste of captivity 6 - Life in Poeloe Brayan 7 - Terror and tedium 8 - Even now, new life 9 - 'Give me strength' 10 - Candles for Christmas 11 - 1944 - A brave new year 12 - The last letters 13 - More alone than ever 14 - Death camp 15 - Turning tides 16 - 'Buried alive' 17 - A double celebration 18 - The aftermath 19 - Coming home to chaos 20 - After effects Appendix A: Enigmatic Japanese Appendix B: The poetry Glossary Sources and selected bibliography