| Record Number |
622755 |
| ISBN |
9781741667462 |
| Author |
Ruff-O'Herne, Jan |
| Title |
Fifty years of silence / by Jan Ruff-O'Herne. |
| Other title |
50 years of silence |
| Edition |
Revised and updated edition. |
| Publication details |
North Sydney, NSW. : William Heinemann Australia, 2008. |
| Pagination etc. |
ix, 214 pages, [32] pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), maps, portraitss ; 24 cm. |
| Contents note |
"The extraordinary memoir of a war rape survivor" -- cover. |
| Summary Note |
"Jan Ruff-O-Hernes childhood came to an abrupt end with the Japanese invasion of Java in March 1942. Jan, her mother and two younger sisters, along with three thousand women and children, were imprisoned by the Japanese in Ambararwa Prison Camp. In February 1944, when Jan was 21 years old, her life was torn apart when, with nine other young women, all of them virgins, she was removed from the camp and forced into a brothel to become a military sex slave for the Japanese. She was repeatedly abused, beaten and raped with threats that her family would be killed if she revealed the truth about the atrocities inflicted upon her. " -- provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Ruff-O'Herne, Jan |
| Japanese Occupation of Indonesia (1942-1945) |
| World war, 1939-1945 -- Indonesia -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese |
| World war, 1939-1945 -- Japan -- Atrocities |
| World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Indonesian |
| Rape victims |
| Victims of rape -- Indonesia -- Biography |
| Comfort women |
| World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities |
| World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- Indonesia |
| Comfort women -- Indonesia -- Biography |
| World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese |
| Java (Indonesia) -- History, Military |
| World War, 1939-1945 |
| History |
| Links to Related Works |
Subject References:
- Comfort women .
- Comfort women -- Indonesia -- Biography .
- History .
- Japanese Occupation of Indonesia (1942-1945) .
- Java (Indonesia) -- History, Military .
- Rape victims .
- Ruff-O'Herne, Jan .
- Victims of rape -- Indonesia -- Biography .
- World War, 1939-1945 .
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities .
- World war, 1939-1945 -- Indonesia -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese .
- World war, 1939-1945 -- Japan -- Atrocities .
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Indonesian .
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese .
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- Indonesia .
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