Track Record
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
A collection of excerpts from prisoners’ diaries and personal interviews of the men forced to work on Sumatra’s ‘death railroad’ in World War II.
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SOMETIMES in our history the surge of events often masks other significant events and they are swept under in the ensuing turbulence. The Sumatra Railroad written by Henk Hovinga is one such event. This story was eclipsed by the Burma Railway and by the unfolding Indonesian revolution leading to independence from their Dutch colonial masters. So nothing much was told about this other death railroad until now.
The third edition Dutch version was
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