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Annelex Hofstra Layson (1937–2015)

Författare till Lost Childhood: My Life in a Japanese Prison Camp During World War II

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Födelsedag
1937-12-22
Avled
2015-03-12
Begravningsplats
Culpeper National Cemetery, Culpeper, Virginia, USA
Kön
female
Födelseort
Surabaya, Dutch East Indies
Dödsort
McLean, Virginia, USA
Bostadsorter
Reston, Virginia, USA
Yrken
memoirist
prison camp survivor
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Annelex Hofstra Layson was born to a family of Dutch origins in Surabaya, Java, in the Dutch East Indies (present-day Indonesia). Her comfortable childhood was ripped apart in 1942 when the Japanese invaded the country during World War II. Her father, a pilot for the Royal Dutch Navy, was away at the war, but Annelex and the rest of her family were rounded up and interned for three and-a-half years in Japanese prison camps. Annelex survived the ordeal to be liberated at the end of the war. Just days after she was reunited with her father, however, he was killed in an explosion. Civil war broke out in Indonesia, forcing the family to flee to The Netherlands. Annelex emigrated to the USA with her mother Hilda and brother Jack. She met and married Henry Kramer, Jr., with whom she had two children, and lived in Reston, Virginia. As her children grew up, she went back to school and received a degree in nursing. In 2008, Annelex published a memoir called Lost Childhood: My Life in a Japanese Prison Camp During World War II.

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A personal narrative by Annelex Layson, who was born to Dutch parents on the island of Java. When Japan captured the East Indies in World War II, she spent 3 1/2 years of her young life in Japanese prison camps
 
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1
Medlemmar
47
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#330,643
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½ 3.3
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2
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4