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August 16, 2017 By Janneke

Open Door

Open the Door I grew up with words like this, “It’s too terrible to tell you,  it's too much. I do not hate the Japanese; they were cruel to each other too.” Those words came from my father, every time I asked him what it was like to survive WWII in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia). He never …

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May 19, 2012 By Janneke

ABDACOM Loss & Liberation, Dutch East Indies

EPISODES OF WWII: The Dutch cruiser HNLMS JAVA, lost in the Battle of the Java Sea. Photo Derek Simon [1919-2004] courtesy Graeme Andrews. (Photo credit: Kookaburra2011) I have moved into Peet's coffee, whilst preparing my novel Shadows for professional editing. I believe ABDACOM* would applaud my …

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May 2, 2012 By Janneke

Look backward before Liberation 5/5/45

  Have you ever looked back on tragedy prior to your own or others' liberation? Have you ever celebrated liberation while remembering the loss and pain of before? In The Netherlands (Holland) the end of World War II is celebrated every May 4th and 5th as the Remembrance and Liberation …

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Janneke Jobsis Brown
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.

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