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  • 32 pairs of socks

    Teddy Tyson, wife of Singer Sewing Company executive James, reluctantly knitted a pair of socks. She finished it anyway and still managed to complete a pair that her friend, Ora Robinson, was also working on. When done, she gave the knitted socks to Herbie Zwick who had asked her the favor to do so two…

  • A saviour called ‘Bunshiyocho Tomibe’

    He saved their lives as he turned a blind eye to their “transgressions” in the camp when otherwise they would have been tortured and killed. WWII internees at Camp Holmes in Baguio City, Philippines had lived a comparatively “peaceful” life in a war camp because of Commandant Rokuro Tomibe who was the Japanese civilian administrator…

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