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Chargement... Song of Survival: Women Interned (1995)par Helen Colijn
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. First published in the US in 1995. Inspired the movie "Paradise Road." This is an account of the author's three years imprisonment in a Japanese camp on Sumatra during WWII, her childhood before the war on the island of Tarakan and her escape from Tarakan with her fathers and sisters. It tells of the uplifting influence of a singing group in the camp comprised of Dutch Australian and English women prisoners. A television documentary entitled 'Song of Survival' was based on events recorded in this book. Includes an index. Song of Survival is an account of the true story which inspired the motion picture 'Paradise Road', starring Glenn Close, Frances McDormand, Pauline Collins, Cate Blanchett, Jennifer Ehle, Julianna Maguilies. Song of Survival is Heln Colijn's riveting account of her experiences as a prisoner of the Japanese in South-East Asia during the Second World War. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Thrown into the whirlwind of dark forces unleashed with the onset of World War II, a young woman, Helen Colijn, her sisters, and father flee the oncoming Japanese army. Helen Colijn's account of her wartime experiences is a window into a largely overlooked dimension of World War II -- the imprisonment of women and children in Southeast Asia by the Japanese and how these prisoners of war responded to their dire circumstances. The conditions were terrible. Food was scarce; medicine unavailable. Held in captivity for three and a half years, more that a third of the women in Helen's camp died of disease or starvation. Yet their courage, faith, resiliency, ingenuity, and camaraderie provide us with enduring lessons on living. Though the prisoners had no musical instruments, they had their voices, and from memory scored classical works for symphony and piano. The music that helped sustain them while in captivity is a lasting and precious gift of these women to a world that has witnessed far too much war. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Not knowing the fate of their mother, the three girls and their father board a ship evacuating civilians to Australia. It was sunk by Japanese fighter pilots, however, and they had to escape on lifeboats. Eventually they made it to Sumatra, but were eventually caught and interned. Helen spent three and a half years in Japanese interment camps for women and children. One of the ways in which the women maintained moral was through vocal performances. In particular they recreated orchestra works using only voices.
After the war, Helen pieced together her diaries to document her experiences, but it wasn't published until 1995 when interest in the camp's music led to public performances. In addition to the book, there is a documentary also called Song of Survival. A film featuring Glenn Close called Paradise Road was released in 2001.
The book was a gripping account of a young woman's wartime experiences and an important first-hand account of life in a woman's interment camp. The lack of emotional excess or hyperbole made the story even more impactful. I couldn't put it down. ( )