Sad News today that reminds us of an uplifting person who was a champion for all the comfort women under the Japanese during World War II. Jan Ruff – O’Herne died at the age of 96 on Monday August 19, 2019 in Adelaide, Australia. This photo of her as a young woman was taken when […]
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WILL THEY EVER LEARN? – Comfort Women / Sex Slaves
Around January 1944, a number of young women were forcibly removed from our concentration camp in central Java, Camp Moentilan (Muntilan), to serve as comfort women / sex slaves. This was all hush-hush as far as we children were concerned and nobody used the word “sex”, but we had a good inkling of what was […]