Book Review: 'My Mother's War within Me: A Search for Inner Freedom and a Life of Love' – The Moderate Voice
The small country of the Netherlands was hit disproportionally hard by the high and cruel toll its Jewish citizenry suffered during World War II. Not as well-known and perhaps not as well understood is the gruesome fate another group of Dutch citizens suffered during the same war when, on March 8, 1942, the Dutch surrendered their largest colony of the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia today) to the Japanese Empire. Following the surrender, more than three years of maltreatment, starvation and torture began for the approximately 200,000 civilians of Dutch origin who were held in “internment cam...
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