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Dutch child survivor of Japan's WWII camps breaks silence
A Dutch survivor recounts hardships endured in Japanese internment camps during World War II to preserve history and educate future generations.
- In Monaco, Tineke Einthoven, a Dutch child survivor, breaks her silence after 80 years about her internment in brutal Japanese camps during WWII.
- When Imperial Japan seized the Dutch colony of Indonesia, her three-year nightmare began early in 1942, and her father was separated and unheard for a year.
- Einthoven said, 'We often had nothing more than a bit of rice to eat,' and added, 'Since I was the smallest, I would slip under the fence to find food outside the camp, but I could only get weeds.'
- The Dutch woman said, 'Now I can talk about it without crying,' reflecting her ability to speak openly about her childhood on Java despite horrible conditions.
- According to the POW Research Network Japan, the 60 or so camps that held some 130,000 Allied civilians in Japan are little known, with more than one in 10 dying in the camps.
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