A story for Chij Kumari I was born just before WW2 in what was then the Dutch East Indies . My family had be there for many generations. I was particularly interested in todays story about Chij Kumari Because of my families Dutch Nationality we as a family were all imprisoned by the occupying Japanese during WW2 for 3 1/2 years in huge overcrowded camps My father was sent to build the Burma railway while all the women and children were imprisoned by the Japanese in huge concentration camps around the islands of what is now Indonesia . My mother with her 3 small children were living in a 3 bedroom house together with almost 80 other women and children . It was the Ghurka's who liberated us from those camps in August 1945. Very little is know about those concentration camps. Communication in those years was ofcourse very limited , especially during the war years. Chij Kumaris husband may well have been my liberator all those many years ago. My mother always told us if the Ghurka's had not liberated us when they did we would not have survived the war in the Far East. . . We had been starved as prisoners of wars for so long. My final concentration camp was called TJIDENG on the island of Java ( Djakarta ) So finally after all those many years I am able to say to the widow Chij Kumari thank you on behalf of your husband for saving my life all those years ago. it is ofcourse the reason I now support the Ghurka welfare trust . Some years ago I went to Japan to make my peace with the Japanese people .