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This story was submitted to the People's War site by Lin Freeman of Radio Derby CSV on behalf of Mrs Truus Taminiau and has been added to the site with her permission. The author fully understands the site's terms and conditions.

I was five years of age and my parents were teachers in the Dutch East Indies when the Japanese invaded. Imprisoned by the Japanese, my mother and I were sent, along with many others, to a prison camp for women and children on the island of Java. My father was sent with the rest of the men to a camp and forced to work on building the Sumatra Railway. When the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima he was near to death, and was only saved by this event. My most vivid memory is that when we were told that the war was over, colours of the Dutch flag being produced, and as we waved them in the air we all sang the Dutch National Anthem.

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