Liberation Nears Sixty-six years ago, World War II lingered on in the Pacific. Millions of native peoples had died, many thousands of civilians and POWs had died in Japanese Labor/Concentration Camps. Many more surviving in these same camps now neared death from starvation, disease, and brutality. …
Following Shadows
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Meet Janneke
Following Shadows is inspired by my own story. As a survivor of an international childhood with parents who were World War II survivors, I know the generational after-effects of starvation and slave labor in Japanese concentration camps for my father, and the terror of Nazi occupation for my mother. I know the challenges of struggling to feel at home across three countries: The Netherlands, Iran and America.