The Little Captive
Kristensen, Lise
I took hold of the fence and pressed my face into the wire, asking myself what I had done to be made a prisoner?'On the Indonesian island of Java, eight-year-old Lise enjoys a happy childhood, thousands of miles away from the war raging in Europe. Then, one day in 1942, her friends and neighbours start to disappear.For two years Lise and her family were imprisoned in POW camps, enduring starvation, illness and brutal treatment at the hands of ...