Stolen Childhoods: The Untold Stories of The Children Interned By the Japanese in the Second World War

STOLEN CHILDHOODS offers a window to a forgotten era of European colonialism and explores what happened when that world was brutally and suddenly shattered. Living on what effectively became the frontline of a war, in daily contact with an enemy whose values were totally alien, they witnessed acts of shocking violence. They had to cope with the knowledge that beloved family members had been beaten and saw at close quarters the evil that human beings can wreak on each other when the social rulebook is torn up.It was as if in an instant their childhoods had been stolen from them. But their stories also prove inspirational, such as the nine-year-old girl who stood up to the Japanese guards, or the children who taught themselves Latin by etching out their verbs in the dust.