I still cannot believe this story, and how fortunate I was to get to hear from this amazing woman. I went to a fireside (think of a Ted Talk, Mormon style) the other night and listened in rapt amazement for approximately 1.5 hours while this story feel from her lips. It was astonishing. Her name is Kitty de Ruyter-Bons and she was a Dutch citizen born in Indonesia. She was about 8 when her family was put on house arrest and soon thereafter put in a Japanese Concentration Camp. She's written a book about it, if you read only one book for leisure in the next year, please read this. It will blow your mind with story after story of courage, integrity, and her incredible mother. I was deeply moved and have since read her book. Here's another interview she did, and here is her book below.
interview:
http://www.mormonchannel.org/conversations/12
book:
http://www.amazon.com/As-I-Have-Loved-You/dp/1591560659
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