50 Years of Silence

by Jan Ruff-O'Herne

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• ISBN: 1875892508
• ISBN13: 9781875892501
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: ETT Imprint
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.

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50 years of SILENCE By Jan Ruff O'Hearne "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. Her searing account of her time in "the House of the Seven Seas" the Japanese Officers club and brothel in Semarang , uncovers one of the worst human-rights abuses to come out of thr war-abuse that affected thousands of young women who were forcibly removed from their families to provide sexual services as 'comfort women' for the Japanese army between 1929 and 1945 '50 years of silence' is Jan's story.