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y separately published work icon 50 Years of Silence single work   autobiography  
Issue Details: First known date: 1994... 1994 50 Years of Silence
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'The long idyllic summer of Jan Ruff-O'Herne's childhood in Dutch colonial Indonesia ended in 1942 with the Japanese invasion of Java. She was interned in Ambarawa Prison Camp, along with her mother and two younger sisters. In February 1944, when Jan was 21, her life was torn apart. Along with nine other young women, all of them virgins, she was plucked from the camp and her family, and enslaved into prostitution by the Japanese Imperial Army.' (Publisher)

Exhibitions

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • c
      Singapore,
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      Southeast Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
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      Toppan ,
      1996 .
      Extent: 152p.
      Description: illus., ports
      ISBN: 981007400X (pbk.)
Alternative title: Orandajin ianfu Jan no monogatari
Alternative title: オランダ人「慰安婦」ジャンの物語
Language: Japanese
    • Tokyo, Honshu,
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      Japan,
      c
      East Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
      :
      Mokuseisha ,
      1999 .
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      Extent: 221p.
      Description: illus., ports
      ISBN: 4896180232

Other Formats

  • Also sound recording, large print.

Awards

1997 winner The TDK Australian Audio Book Awards Abridged Non-Fiction
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    Indonesia,
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    Southeast Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
  • ca. 1939-1945
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