Three year picnic : an American woman's life inside Japanese prison camps in the Philippines during WWII /
Statement of responsibility: Evelyn Whitfieldby
Whitfield, Evelyn
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BookPublisher: Corvallis, OR : Premiere Editions International, c1999Description: 320 p. : ill., 22 x 14 cm.ISBN: 963381881 (softbound).Subject(s): Whitfield, Evelyn | Prisoners of war -- Philippines -- Biography | Prisoners of war -- United States -- Biography | Women -- United States -- Biography | World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration Camps -- Philippines | World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American | World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, JapaneseGeneral Note(s): Written as part of her healing process, 50 years ago, then put away in a drawer. Half a century later, her words have more impact then ever. - Roderick HallLanguage/Translation Info: EnglishSummary: Personal account of an American woman married to a logging engineer, who worked in northern Luzon, where the two stayed. When the war started, Mrs. Whitfield was evacuated to Manila but her husband Norman stayed on in Baguio. Mrs. Whitfield, in Manila, was interned by the Japanese in Santo Tomas Internment Camp, and tried to survive as best she could, making friends. She describes living conditions in the camp, and how she found out her husband was interned in Baguio. She managed to get permission to go to Baguio and was reunited with her husband in Camp Holmes in December 1943. She and her husband spent a year in Camp Holmes, and were moved to Bilibid a year later, where they were freed in February 1945. The original manuscript was written shortly after the war, to help heal the wounds, but it was shelved for over fifty years. - Prof. Ricardo T. Jose
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Barcode | |
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Filipinas Heritage Library Roderick Hall Coll. | D 805 .P6 W39 1999 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 13824 |
Written as part of her healing process, 50 years ago, then put away in a drawer. Half a century later, her words have more impact then ever. - Roderick Hall
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