Ruth’s Record: The Diary of an American in Japanese-occupied Shanghai 1941-45
Posted: March 3rd, 2017 | 2 Comments »Yesterday I noted the forthcoming Royal Asiatic Society’s visit to the former Lunghua Internment Camp in Shanghai. I should mention the new book that inspired that trip….Ruth’s Record: The Diary of an American in Japanese-Occupied Shanghai 1941-1945 by Ruth Barr…
The year 1941 was a turning point for the world, but long-time Shanghai resident Ruth Hill Barr had no way of knowing that when she started her five-year diary on January 1st. Before the year was over, the Japanese Army had occupied Shanghai’s International Settlement, and she and her family were stranded as enemy aliens, soon to be placed in a Japanese internment camp. This book includes the full text of Ruth’s diary along with explanations and memories by her daughter Betty, revealing with fascinating detail the anguish and, incredibly, the continuity of life inside and outside the Shanghai camps during the war.
ref Ruth’s Diary I read with interest on the Lunghwa site which I have only today discovered, that her daughter was “the last surviving inmate of the Lunghwa camp”. I am also a survivor as I was born in the camp in 1944 and was a year old when I left the camp with my parents who had been interned for 4 years. So at least two of us!
Thanks – i don’t know who exactly claimed that but i can assure you there are a few
Ex-Lunghwa people still around who were interned as kids