Surviving Death / The Burma Railway: The War Diary of Guus Fonteijn bag "Sabra" was still a source

"Sabra" was still a source of inspiration

creates a powerful context for the Huygens’ story in her preface

Elizabeth White

sixteen pages of text

Surviving Death / The Burma Railway: The War Diary of Guus Fonteijn bag "Sabra" was still a sourceGuus' diary is an often heart wrenching account of his time as a forced labourer on the Thai Burma railway. The detail he provides gives the reader a real sense of the horror faced by the men in those appalling conditions, not only from their Japanese captors, but also from Allied bombings. Guus was born in Indonesia, then a Dutch colony, in 1923 to a happy, Jewish family. In 1932 they returned to Holland and after a period, seeing the threat posed by