Rising from the Shadow of the Sun: A Story of Love, Survival and Joy, by Ronny Herman de Jong
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This second edition of Rising from the Shadow of the Sun, A Story of Love, Survival and Joy exemplifies the power of positive thinking, of hope, of perseverance even in the most perilous and life threatening situations and of a mother's love for her children, surpassing even the tragedy of death. Jeannette Herman-Louwerse, Netty, a young mother incarcerated by the Japanese on the island of Java during world War Two with her two little girls Ronny and Paula, endures starvation, harsh punishments and diseases for almost four years. They barely survive. In a secret diary, at the risk of being tortured and killed had it been detected, Netty writes letters to her parents in the German-occupied Netherlands, and gives an accurate historical account of the Japanese invasion and the lives of women and children interned under the brutal regime of the Japanese. She describes the years of physical and psychological suffering, but also the hope, faith, solidarity and resilience that keep the imprisoned women alive. Netty's husband Fokko, a pilot with the Dutch Naval Air Force, stationed in Surabaya, escapes with his squadron hours before the Japanese submarines encircle the island. Working under British command in Sri Lanka, Fokko’s story is chronicled along the same timeline as that of his wife and children; he, too, survives. Ten years after the war Ronny continues her education in the Netherlands. She earns a degree in English from Leiden University and marries an ambitious young man. After the birth of two daughters and a son they emigrate to California in 1972. The close-knit family serves as a strong basis for the ups and downs in Ronny’s life. Setting goals and fulfilling dreams, Ronny frequently visits her parents in the Netherlands; she translates her mother's diary and based on that publishes her first book In the Shadow of the Sun in 1992. After her father passes away the bond with her mother grows even stronger. The first edition of Rising from the Shadow of the Sun, A Story of Love, Survival and Joy, published in 2011 includes Ronny's memoir and the Japanese War Crimes Files. This second edition commemorates her mother's life.
Rising from the Shadow of the Sun: A Story of Love, Survival and Joy, by Ronny Herman de Jong - Amazon Sales Rank: #1299638 in Books
- Published on: 2015-11-14
- Original language: English
- Dimensions: 8.50" h x .91" w x 5.50" l,
- Binding: Paperback
- 400 pages
Rising from the Shadow of the Sun: A Story of Love, Survival and Joy, by Ronny Herman de Jong From the Author When my first book, In the Shadow of the Sun, based on my mother's journal and published in 1992, was out of print, but people kept asking me for more copies, I realized that the subject of women's suffering in Japanese concentration camps during WWII in the Pacific was unknown to many.People in general know a lot about WWII in Europe, the Holocaust, and about the military war effort in the Pacific, but virtually nothing about the civilian camps for men, women and children and the cruel treatment of the prisoners by the Japanese Imperial Army in Southeast Asia.When I found out about the NARA Files, the top secret Japanese War Crimes Files declassified in the year 2000, I knew I had to re-tell the story and add this valuable information for the whole world to know. The 1942 liquidation plan of the Japanese Ministry of War was stated in Exhibit O : Death for all prisoners of war in all camps in occupied Southeast Asia, to commence in September of 1945. That meant my life was saved by the bombs! I herewith thank all the veterans and deceased military who fought so courageously and gave their lives for the rescue we so desperately kept hoping and praying for.Rising from the Shadow of the Sun, an autobiographical historical memoir, if I may call it that, details my mother's love and our survival of the concentration camps followed by vignettes of the wonderful, joyous life that has befallen me since. At the time of its publication in March of 2011, my dear Mamma was 101 years old and very happy that our second book had seen the light. She received the very first copy.
From the Back Cover An inspiring story about the human spirit and the resiliency that can be found in families and even little girls.- Elizabeth Norman, PhDRonny's strong and engaging voice brings clear understanding of the physical and psychological suffering that interned women endured during the Japanese occupation.- Virginia Colangelo, MARising from the Shadow of the Sun reveals human greatness and depravity through the eyes of a little girl and her courageous mother. Ronny's life glows like a lunar rainbow of perseverance and hope. It's a testimony to the abiding strength of family and love.- James Williams, MATRonny's direct, matter-of-fact narrative is optimistic, revealing her abiding faith that love, determination and positive willpower can overcome adversity.- Ray Newton, PhD
About the Author Ronny Herman, born and raised in the Dutch East Indies, survived four years in Japanese concentration camps with her mother Netty and her little sister Paula during World War II on the island of Java. After the war a degree in English literature from Leiden University in the Netherlands and an impromptu wedding became the basis of a happy and exciting life in the United States, culminating in US citizenship in the year 2005. She has resided in New York City; Pasadena, California; Hilo, Hawai'i; and Prescott, Arizona. Her secretarial career dates from 1961 in Rockefeller Center, New York to 1974 in California, where she worked at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Cañada-Flintridge for a contractor of NASA. After further training and education Ronny became a fashion model and commercial actress in the greater Los Angeles area. For six years she served as a patient-care Hospice volunteer for Verdugo Hills Hospice and was moderator of her church. Almost twelve years in Hilo, Hawai'i provided an opportunity for her to perform as a hula dancer and volunteer with Hospice of Hilo as secretary to the Board. She also finished the manuscript she had been working on for three years. In 1992, her first book, In the Shadow of the Sun was published by Vanderheide Publishing Co. LTD. in Canada. An interview at Schiphol Airport by a Japanese journalist resulted in an article about her book in the Hokkaido Shimbun Press in Japan. Ronny's second book, Rising from the Shadow of the Sun, A Story of Love, Survival and Joy, a sequel and personal memoir was published in March 2011 by Booklocker.com. Currently residing in Prescott, Arizona, Ronny is a member of the Professional Writers of Prescott (PWP) and the Society of Southwestern Authors (SSA). For more information please visit Ronny's website.
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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful. War and a Mother's Love and a Daughter's Remembrance By Foster Corbin "Sticking his bayonet through the gedek (bamboo fence), the Japanese soldier aimed to kill me. He missed." With those two stunning and memorable first sentences, Ronny Herman de Jong begins her narrative of the time that she, her mother Netty Herman-Louwerse and her sister Paula, who were citizens of the Netherlands, spent in a Japanese concentration camp on the island of Java in the Dutch East Indies from March, 1942 until they were freed in August, 1945. Her beloved father Fokko spent the time away in the Dutch Naval Air Force not knowing if his wife and children were alive or dead. RISING FROM THE SHADOW OF THE SUN is this amazing family's story. Aided by her mother's secret diary (published here in its entirety) that she kept during this awful times, written in Dutch of course that Ms. de Jong later translated into English, the author tells this harrowing little-known story, another from World War Two, that is a horrific picture of life in a concentration camp but, much more importantly, a testament to the endurance of the human spirit. In Part One (In the Shadow of the Sun) Ms. de Jong, using her mother's diary and memoirs in addition to the diary, tells of her parents' marriage, the births of her and her sister Paula, the invasion by the Japanese of Java, the years of living in the camps away from her father and their happy reunion with him at the end of the war. Part Two is the author's autobiography and memoir. After the war, she got a degree in English literature, married her husband Mike in 1961, and is the mother of three children. She and her family have lived in California, Hawaii and now Arizona. She has worn many hats: a deacon in the Presbyterian Church, an actress (appearing on TV in "Archie Bunker"), a hospice volunteer, a hula dancer, an author of course, and lastly someone dedicated to keeping alive and teaching the world the story of one brave woman as well as the 100,000 or so other Dutch citizens who were detained by the Japanese in internment camps, many of whom perished. Ms. de Jong became a U. S. citizen in 2005. We welcome her!As the saying goes, an apple does not fall far from the tree. Netty Herman-Louwerse was no slouch as a writer herself. Her secret dairy, although certainly never intended for publication, is beautifully written. As I read it, I kept thinking of the dairy of Anne Frank that I read many years ago. Netty gives a day-by-day account of the lives of her and her small daughters: what they ate, what they wore, the games the children played as well as her own feelings and her own isolation from her husband and parents. (Even in these direst of circumstances, however, she rarely complains.) "I never looked at the moon so much in my life. . . I can count with it, and know that another month has gone by. It is the only thing we wish for: that time may go by quickly."Netty works diligently to make life as normal as possible for her young daughters. They celebrate birthdays. Ronny learns cross-stitching. And-- putting a lump in this reader's throat-- this little girl sometimes saves her peppermint candy for her "Pappa" until he returns home and puts it by his photograph. Netty sometimes sleeps in her husband Fokko's pajamas, "which gives me a nice feeling." But I had to smile when she complains about the expensive "bad-tasting American margarine. (My own beloved grandmother in East Tennessee was a staunch opponent of the "awful stuff," preferring to churn her own delicious and beautifully yellow fresh butter.) And this strongest of women, who apparently could do most anything, wasn't sure she could fry chicken that a friend in the hospital had requested so she got someone else for that task and fried potatoes and made rhubarb sauce for him. Of course there are the many illnesses and hospitalizations that Netty and her girls endured, many of them caused by malnutrition: Ronny's diphtheria, Netty's amoebae dysentery, the measles, the flu, and hunger edema. The children were skeletal and near death when they and their mother were happily reunited in November, 1945 with Fokko whom the children did not remember as he had been separated from his family since March, 1942.Ms. de Jong ends her must-be-read narrative with the celebration of her beautiful mother Netty's 101 birthday. I wish I could have given her a dozen tulips for the occasion. I am grateful that through the efforts of another beautiful woman, her daughter Ronny, I got to get a glimpse of this amazing woman. I suspect, however, that she would just have seen herself as an ordinary person just doing what she had to do in a time of great adversity. And finally, surely you have to love anyone who says at the age of 101 "I will sleep like a rose."
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful. A Lesson in Human Endurance By Nancy O. Nelson A Lesson in Human EnduranceRonny Herman de Jong's book, "Rising from the Shadow of the Sun," is many things: a journal of a mother, Netty (Jeannette Herman-Louwerse) who survived a Japanese extermination camp, her husband's military story, and their daughter, Ronny's reflections on her own life in context of her parents'. These three major "characters" bring unique points of view about the experiences of a family during the Japanese invasion of the island of Java, in the Dutch East Indies. However, the combination of the three in one book is like looking into a prism with many faces. In the final analysis, the stories blend into one another and the reader gains a much fuller, richer view than she would with only one perspective.Part One, "In The Shadow of the Sun," is Netty's first-hand account of her four-year experience in the camp, with added information about her husband Fokko. Ronny de Jong herself was only three years old when the Japanese invaded. She, her mother Netty, and her sister Paula were imprisoned for most of four years, from just after Netty's journal begins in November, 1941, until August, 1945, when the Japanese capitulated. Thus Ronny is a character in her mother's story.While de Jong does not bring direct memories of this period to her autobiographical piece, we often see her in Part One through the eyes of her mother. This double perspective gives even greater depth to the story. One portion in particular near the end of the journal shows Ronny as "now six years old, . . .the long years of living in a camp and malnutrition had put their stamp on her. She, too, showed signs of edema" (210). Despite Ronny's own physical weakness, she is seen on the same page as helping her little sister, Paula, who is even more malnourished, to stand. In fact, Netty writes about both of her daughters through the passing days--birthdays, games with friends, the ordinary turned frightening and stark as the little girls grow up in imprisonment. Throughout the journal we see Netty's strength and resilience in the face of hunger, edema, bed bugs, skin infections, lice, maggots, and malaria. We also see the development of both daughters, and we witness Ronny's emergence as a sensitive and stalwart girl who loved her mother and sister and longed for the return of her father and the reconstruction of her family.De Jong's autobiographical account in Part Two, "Rising from the Shadow of the Sun," describes her life after the war as a "roller coaster" ride. Ultimately she moves to the United States with her husband and three children. This section is punctuated with the repeated refrain "Life couldn't be better."All told, this is an important work which provides significant stories about the victims of a lesser-known part of World War II in Southeast Asia. As with "The Diary of Anne Frank" and Elie Wiesel's "Night," we marvel at Netty's courage and strength in caring for her daughters throughout this catastrophic period. We experience her husband's enduring love, and after the horror has passed, their daughter Ronny's affirmation of life. "Rising from the Shadow of the Sun" is an important account of courage and hope.Nancy Owen Nelson, PhDMemoirist, poet, college professor
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. A Story of Boundless Courage By D. G. The sub-title of this most wonderful book is A Story of Love, Survival and Joy. The word survival seems a contradiction placed between words such as love and joy, but the mother and her daughters did survive the most hopeless of conditions. There was joy both before and following the story of their extraordinary survival at the hands of merciless Japanese captors during World War II.The author and her younger sister had a mother who would see them through daily deprivation and fear and yet she kept a diary that spoke of courage, even optimism. I’ve given her much thought and wondered if Nettie was able to do so because this was a journal meant for the eyes of the father and grandparents who were forced to miss the early years of her two daughters. It was a lesson in the importance of journaling so that specific periods in our lives are not forgotten nor the lessons lost. Written mostly in first person, the story and images came alive for me. These are the stories which need sharing, the truth of our history.I was reminded of how resilient children can be—even while living with starvation, insecurity, and constant fear—as long as they feel secure while enveloped in a parent’s love. Many survivors are unable to relive the painful memories long enough to write about them. Such is the case of a dear friend of mine who spent four year of her young life in a prison camp. But Ronny Herman was very young during those traumatic years. Nettie’s first-person account takes the reader into the midst of horror. In a far different time period and setting, Nettie also might have become an author.This is a story not to be missed—one exhibiting the remarkable strength of the human spirit, of one mother’s determination to win the battle she faced daily to protect her two daughters.
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