"MARCH 4TH, 1943. This will probably be one of the last letters I shall write to you before going into internment ...."

[Peggy Abkhazi's journal was an extension of the correspondence she kept prior to the Second World War with Roderick and Muriel MacKenzie of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, who were her best friends and became her ( Read more... )

"Got home feeling depressed, cold and tired to find Li in a state of suspended drama and agitation. Four Japanese soldiers, to listen to him, armed to the teeth, had called and finding I was out, said that would return at the same time tomorrow. I couldn't think what they could want, but the thought of domiciliary visits is hardly reassuring, it ( Read more... )

"The cycle bandits will go out of business for a time, as three of their number have been caught redhanded-two of them laid out by a Briton and a German, and handed over to the Japanese who promptly cut off their heads-so that is that."

Peggy Abkhazi,
A Curious Cage: Life in a Japanese Internment Camp, 1943 - 1945,
ed. S. W. Jackman with an ( Read more... )