The extraordinary memoir of a war rape survivor. The extraordinary memoir of a war rape survivor. 'How can you tell your daughters, you know? I mean, the shame, the shame was still so great. I knew I had to tell them but I couldn't tell them face to face . . . so I decided to write it down.' Jan Ruff O'Herne's idyllic childhood in Dutch colonial Indonesia ended when the Japanese invaded Java in 1942. She was interned in Ambarawa Prison Camp along with her mother and two younger sisters. In February 1944, when Jan was just twenty-one years old, she was taken from the camp and forced into sexual slavery in a military brothel. Jan was repeatedly beaten and raped for a period of three months, after which she was returned to prison camp with threats that her family would be killed if she revealed the truth about the atrocities inflicted upon her. For fifty years, Jan told no-one what had happened to her, but in 1992, after seeing Korean war rape victims making appeals for justice on television, she decided to speak out and support them. Before she could testify publicly, though, she had to find a way to tell her family and friends about all she had suffered. Jan's survival is a tribute to her inner strength and deep faith. For the past fifteen years, she has worked tirelessly to protect the rights of women in war and armed conflict.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Random House Australia
ISBN-13
9781741667462
eBay Product ID (ePID)
95282477
Product Key Features
Book Title
Fifty Years of Silence
Author
Jan Ruff O'herne
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Government
Publication Year
2008
Type
Textbook
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
232mm
Item Width
156mm
Item Weight
351g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Jan Ruff O'herne
Topic Area
Sexual Abuse
Country/Region of Manufacture
Australia
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