The way of a boy : a memoir of Java
1995
Brought up on a tea plantation in Java in the 1930s, Ernest Hillen and his brother Jerry had a magical and exotic boyhood, until the Japanese invasion of the Dutch East Indies in 1942. The following three and a half years were spent in Japanese prisoner of war camps, where Ernest experienced hunger, squalor, cruelty, despair and sickness. Originally published: Canada : Viking, 1993. 200 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Vervaardiger
- Hillen, Ernest, 1934-
Collectie
- NIOD Bibliotheek
Type
- Text
Identificatienummer van NIOD Instituut voor Oorlogs-, Holocaust- en Genocidestudies
- ocm33048673
Trefwoorden
- Hillen, Ernest, 1934-
- Prisoners of war--Indonesia--Java--Biography.
- World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Dutch.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Indonesia--Java.
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