Children of the Camps: Japan's Last Forgotten Victims tells the
truly heart-rending stories of Caucasian and Eurasian children who
ended up imprisoned inside Japanese internment camps throughout
Asia. It is written from the perspective of the survivors, who are
all elderly today, and the effects that it had on their lives and
families.
Survivors' testimonies run right through the book, as we follow
their traumatic change of circumstance and experiences from prewar
privilege into the horrors of the internment camps and finally the
uncertainties of the immediate postwar period when liberation often
meant discovery of the loss of parents.
The Japanese treatment of Allied children was as harsh and
murderous as that of their parents and military POWs, but this
whole episode has been overlooked. Children were plucked from
comfortable colonial lives and forced to mature hastily in terrible
circumstances, where survival became a daily game, and where their
lives were constantly threatened by disease, starvation and
physical abuse.returncharacterreturncharacterMany of these children
were separated from their parents, or they saw their families
destroyed by the Japanese. Most witnessed almost daily episodes of
bestial violence that no child ever should see, and the entire
cumulative experience has had a deep and lasting effect into their
adult lives. They are among the last victims of Japanese
aggression, and even over 60 years later many carry the mental and
physical scars of that atrocious episode.
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