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Jan Ruff-O'Herne Jan Ruff-O'Herne i(A49963 works by)
Born: Established: 1923 Java,
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Indonesia,
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Southeast Asia, South and East Asia, Asia, ;
Gender: Female
Arrived in Australia: 1960
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2 y separately published work icon 50 Years of Silence Jan Ruff-O'Herne , Sydney : Editions Tom Thompson , 1994 Z857203 1994 single work autobiography

'The long idyllic summer of Jan Ruff-O'Herne's childhood in Dutch colonial Indonesia ended in 1942 with the Japanese invasion of Java. She was interned in Ambarawa Prison Camp, along with her mother and two younger sisters. In February 1944, when Jan was 21, her life was torn apart. Along with nine other young women, all of them virgins, she was plucked from the camp and her family, and enslaved into prostitution by the Japanese Imperial Army.' (Publisher)
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