Song of Survival (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | Helen Colijn | knygos.lt

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Song of Survival provides a window into an often overlooked dimension of World War II - the imprisonment of women and children in Southeast Asia.
It is Helen Colijn's memoir of the three and a half years she spent in a Japanese prison camp on the island of Java. Colijn and her family were living in the Dutch Indies when the Japanese army invaded. When her family's attempt to flee failed, Colijn ended up in one of the many Japanese internment camps for the duration of the war. The conditions were harsh, food was scarce, and medicine was unavailable, but the women who survived the starvation and disease somehow found the courage to persist. They found faith and resiliency in their comraderie with each other and in their voices. To help sustain them in their captivity, the women created music with lyrics expressing hope and the sentiment that the world has seen too much war.
This moving account of extraordinary women inspired the film Paradise Road and should inspire its readers as well.