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| Named Person: | Rita la Fontaine de Clercq Zubli; Rita la Fontaine de Clercq Zubli |
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| Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Rita la Fontaine de Clercq Zubli |
| ISBN: | 9780763633295 0763633291 9781428763661 142876366X |
| OCLC Number: | 141484720 |
| Description: | 366 p. : map ; 23 cm. |
| Responsibility: | Rita la Fontaine de Clercq Zubli. |
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Abstract:
With the Japanese army poised to invade their Indonesian island in 1942, Rita la Fontaine's family knew that they and the other Dutch and Dutch-Indonesian residents would soon become prisoners of war. Fearing that twelve-year-old Rita would be forced to act as a "comfort woman" for the Japanese soldiers, the family launched a desperate plan to turn Rita into "Rick," cutting her hair short and dressing her in boy's clothes. Rita's aptitude for languages earned her a position as translator for the commandant of the prisoner camp, and for the next three years she played a dangerous game of disguise while advocating against poor conditions, injustice, and torture. Sixty-five years later, Rita describes a war experience like no other--a remarkable tale of integrity, fortitude, and honor.--From publisher description.
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- Clercq Zubli, Rita la Fontaine de, -- 1929-
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- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Indonesian.
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